Houston, TexasJanuary 1958

Insufficient Data

Summary

On the night of January 3, 1958, in Houston, Texas, a civilian and his wife reported a single star-like object low in the northwestern sky. They saw it slowly descending near a bright star in a constellation. The object had the brightness of a first-magnitude star and dimmed as it sank, disappearing behind treetops. The witness said it did not appear to be burning and was not a meteor or a weather balloon. The report came in a letter sent to a magazine, which forwarded it to the Air Force. The letter also described two later sightings on January 12 and 14. The report was filed under Project 10073, the Air Force's official record for unidentified flying object reports. The Air Force said that without photographs, exact times, and accurate angles, the sighting could not be firmly identified. For the January 3 object, the case was considered to have insufficient data.

Reported location

Houston, Texas

Date of incident

January 1958

State / country

TX / US

Page count

5 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 31

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PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD
| 1. DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
QO Was Balloon
: 3 Jan 58 Houston, Texas QO Probably Balleon
3. DATE-TIME GROUP + TYPE OF OBSERVATION Q Possibly Balloon |
RYT JS J) A Ae & Ground- Visual 0 Ground-Radar 2 Probably. Air dit
GMT ARH 0 Air Visual O Air-Intercept Radar O Possibly Aireraft
5. PHOTOS i URCE Q Was Astronomical
QO Yes ¥ O Probably Astronomical !
ONo Civilian O Possibly Astronomical :
| 7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE Bolan
: x Insufficient Data for Evaluation] |!
3 2 Unknown i
\ not given one descending
| 10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS
Star-like obi slinwlv descending near No duration, speed other than] |
‘| Deneb in the constellation Cygnus, wilich slow, or enough data for
| at this time was low on theNW horizon analysis. Case condidered as | |
| Obj had brilliance of 1st mag star, insufficient data.
Dimmed as it descanded & disappeared |
behind trees. Did not apeear to be buprn- :
ing, not a meteor, not oscillating like
weather balloon,
ATIC FORM 329 (REV 16 SEP 52)
i 2 pA dN TN " g 21% ¥ -

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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28976476