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PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD

|  1. DATE | 14 Jan 58 | 2. LOCATION | Houston, Texas | 12. CONCLUSIONS | ☐ Was Balloon ☐ Probably Balloon ☐ Possibly Balloon  |
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|  3. DATE-TIME GROUP | Local night CMT | 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION | ☑ Ground-Visual ☐ Ground-Radar ☐ At Telescope ☐ Air-Vibral | ☐ Was Aircraft ☐ Probably Aircraft ☐ Possibly Aircraft | ☐ Was Astronomical ☐ Probably Astronomical ☐ Possibly Astronomical  |
|  5. PHOTOS | ☐ Yes ☐ No | 6. SOURCE | Civilian | ☑ Other Unreliable Rpt ☐ Insufficient Data for Evaluation ☐ Unknown |   |
|  7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATIO…

These two celestial occurences should have been sufficient
but hold us, but no:

On the night of January 14, I was in my back yard about
10:30 p.m., looking at the stars through my 4-inch telescope. At
that particular moment, I had stepped away from my scope and was looking
in the direction of Gemini ( ), when suddenly four
oval-shaped objects, one-behind the other and in perfect formation,
flew across my line of sight, very low. (would say under 150 feet.)
These objects were not lighted at all, were grayish in color from
the lights of the city (the moon was not in the sky). They were flying
e…

15/430Z
35A
SAFIS-3/Maj Tacker/jmd/73328

15 April 1958

Dear Mr.

This is to acknowledge your letter of 17 January concerning unidentified flying object sightings.

The Air Force has no report of a burning object over Houston, Texas on 12 January 1958.

With reference to the objects sighted on 14 January 1958, they were probably high flying jet aircraft.

Without photographs, accurate azimuths, evaluations, bearings, exact times and identification based upon the observer's own description it is difficult, if not impossible, to definitely evaluate such sightings.

Sincerely,

LAWRENCE J. TACKE…

Handwritten: Handwritten: Houston 6, Tex
Handwritten: January 17 1 95 6

Editor Time
New York

Dear Sir:

There are some strange goings-on in the evening and night sky above Houston.

On the night of January 3, my wife and I, upon returning from a visit to a bookstore, observed a star-like object slowly descending near Deneb in the constellation Cygnus in the low Northwestern sky. This object, with the brilliancy of a first magnitude star, dimmed as it sank, becoming barely visible when it disappeared from view behind treetops. It did not appear to be a burning object, such as a gas-filled wea…