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PROJECT ONE ZERO SEVEN THREE RECORD ONE. DATE – OCTOBER ELEVENTH, NINETEEN FIFTY. TIME – TWELVE FIFTY ONE HOURS ZULU. SOURCE – CIVILIAN. NUMBER OF OBJECTS – ONE. NATION – UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. STATE – UTAH. CONCLUSION – ASTRONOMICAL (KEITHOR) EVALUATED AS A METEOR OBSERVATION. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION – ONE HUNDRED ELEVEN MINUTES. BRIEF SUMMARY AND ANALYSIS – NOT REPORTED. TYPE OF OBSERVATION – VISUAL. COURSE – SOUTHWEST. PHOTOS – NONE. PHYSICAL EVIDENCE – NONE. OBSERVER THOUGHTS – OBJECT WAS A NATURAL PHENOMENON BUT ON CLOSER OBSERVATION IT APPEARED TO BE A ROCKET OR PLANE. THE OBJECT APPEARED AT FIRST AS A LONG, THIN LINE OF FIRE CROSSING THE SKY AT A TERRIFIC RATE OF SPEED. THIS LINE OF FIRE LATER WIDENED OUT AND THEN SEEMED TO DIP AND EXPLODE. THE FRONT END OF THE OBJECT BROKE AWAY, AND THE MAIN BODY SEEMED TO STAY IN THE SKY AND THEN SUDDENLY FADED COMPLETELY OUT. CLASSIFIED – UNCLASSIFIED. SUBJECT – UNIDENTIFIED AERIAL OBJECT SIGHTED IN VICINITY OF PROVO RIVER, UTAH. TO: DIRECTOR OF SPECIAL INVESTIGATION, HEADQUARTERS, U S A P. FROM: A. A. SHINCTON, D. C. AF. 250213. THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION WAS FURNISHED THIS OFFICE BY THE ONE HUNDRED FIFTEENTH C I C DETACHMENT, INTELLIGENCE FIELD OFFICE, K O, FORT DOUGLAS, UTAH. AT ONE THIRTY ZERO HOURS, OCTOBER ELEVENTH, NINETEEN FIFTY, ADDRESS NUMBER ONE, FREEMAN AVENUE, BIMMING, UTAH, EMPLOYED AS A COMPRESSOR OPERATOR ON THE LARK TUNNEL, LARK, UTAH, TELEPHONED THIS DETACHMENT OFFICE AND VOLUNTEERED THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION. ON TWENTY-TWO ONE ZERO HOURS, OCTOBER ELEVENTH, NINETEEN FIFTY, WHILE WORKING ON THE LARK TUNNEL, A COMPANION, NAME UNKNOWN, SIGHTED WHAT APPEARED TO BE A METEOR CROSSING THE SKY. HOWEVER, UPON CLOSER OBSERVATION, IT APPEARED TO BE A ROCKET OR PLANE OF SOME SORT. THE OBJECT APPEARED AT FIRST AS A LONG, THIN LINE OF FIRE CROSSING THE SKY AT A TERRIFIC RATE OF SPEED. THIS LINE OF FIRE LATER WIDENED OUT AND THEN SEEMED TO DIP AND EXPLODE. THE FRONT END OF THE OBJECT BROKE AWAY, AND THE MAIN BODY SEEMED TO STAY IN THE SKY AND THEN SUDDENLY FADED COMPLETELY OUT. ESTIMATED THE OBJECT ABOUT HUNDRED OR FIFTY MILES AWAY FROM HIS POSITION – IN THE VICINITY OF THE PROVO RIVER, ROUGHLY SOUTHWEST OF LARK, UTAH. THE REPORTER STATED THAT THE DELAY IN REPORTING THIS INCIDENT WAS OCCASIONED BY THE FACT THAT, ALTHOUGH HE FELT HE SHOULD REPORT IT TO SOMEONE, HE DID NOT KNOW WHICH WOULD BE THE PROPER AGENCY TO REPORT TO. FURTHER INFORMATION CAN BE OBTAINED FROM EITHER HIS RESIDENCE OR AT HIS WORK AT THE LARK TUNNEL. HE IS PRESENTLY WORKING FROM SIX THOUSAND TO TWELVE HUNDRED HOURS DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY. FREEMAN AVENUE, BIMMING, UTAH, IS REFERRED TO LOCALLY AS FREEMAN CULTCH. THE ABOVE IS THE FULL CONTENT OF THE DECLASSIFIED RECORD. THIS DOCUMENT WAS RELEASED THROUGH THE BLACK VAULT ARCH

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1950 10 9617263 Lark Utah

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PROJECT ONE ZERO SEVEN THREE RECORD ONE. DATE – OCTOBER ELEVENTH, NINETEEN FIFTY. TIME – TWELVE FIFTY ONE HOURS ZULU. SOURCE – CIVILIAN. NUMBER OF OBJECTS – ONE. NATION – UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. STATE – UTAH. CONCLUSION – ASTRONOMICAL (KEITHOR) EVALUATED AS A METEOR OBSERVATION.

Agency: Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
Date: JUL 18 · 2026
Release: Declassified · U.S. public record (FOIA)
Source document: View the primary source documenthttps://archive.org/details/1950-10-9617263-Lark-Utah

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What was 1950 10 9617263 Lark Utah about?: PROJECT ONE ZERO SEVEN THREE RECORD ONE. DATE – OCTOBER ELEVENTH, NINETEEN FIFTY. TIME – TWELVE FIFTY ONE HOURS ZULU. SOURCE – CIVILIAN. NUMBER OF OBJECTS – ONE. NATION – UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. STATE – UTAH. CONCLUSION – ASTRONOMICAL (KEITHOR) EVALUATED AS A METEOR OBSERVATION.
Why was this case declassified?: This material was released by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) through the U.S. declassification and Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) process. The originating source document is linked in the case notes above so the citation chain is fully auditable.

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