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PROJECT ONE ZERO SEVEN THREE RECORD CARD I. DATE FOUR AUGUST NINETEEN FIFTY‑EIGHT. LOCATION TROY HILL, NEW JERSEY. TYPE OF OBSERVATION GROUND VISUAL. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION TWELVE SECONDS. NUMBER OF OBJECTS TWO. COURSE NORTH‑WEST TO SOUTH‑WEST. CONCLUSIONS POSSIBLY BALLOON. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING: OBJECTS VERY BRIGHT, CAME FROM WEST‑NORTHWEST AND DISAPPEARED IN THE SOUTH‑WEST. SECOND SECTION. UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT SIGHTED FOUR AUGUST NINETEEN FIFTY‑EIGHT BY VILLAGE OF WHIPPANY, NEW JERSEY. SUBJECT: NCL‑ZERO‑EIGHT‑ONE (FIVE‑D‑TWENTY‑FOUR‑TWENTY‑ONE). FROM: FIRST INSTRUCTION HEADQUARTERS, FIFTH DISTRICT, UNITED STATES AIR FORCE, WRIGHT‑PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, OHIO. TO: COMMANDER, AIR TECHNICAL INTELLIGENCE CENTER, AIR FORCE INSTRUCTIONAL COMMAND, OHIO. DATE OF REPORT TWENTY‑FIVE AUGUST NINETEEN FIFTY‑EIGHT. ON SIXTEEN AUGUST NINETEEN FIFTY‑EIGHT THE INDIVIDUAL DESCRIBED ABOVE TELEPHONED THE DISTRICT OFFICE AND ADVISED THAT HE AND HIS WIFE WERE ATTENDING A DRIVE‑IN MOVIE IN HIS VILLAGE AT ABOUT TWENTY‑THREE HUNDRED HOURS ON FOUR AUGUST NINETEEN FIFTY‑EIGHT. HE NOTED AN UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT. HE THOUGHT IT WAS A SATELLITE, BUT FIFTEEN MINUTES LATER AN IDENTICAL UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT CAME INTO VIEW. BOTH OBJECTS WERE DESCRIBED AS ELLIPTICAL IN SHAPE AND VERY BRIGHT. THE FIRST NOTICED OBJECT APPEARED IN THE WEST‑NORTHWEST AND DISAPPEARED AT THE HORIZON IN THE SOUTH‑WEST. THE DRIVE‑IN MOVIE IS LOCATED AT TROY HILL, NEW JERSEY. AT THE TIME THE SKY WAS CLEAR AND VISIBILITY GOOD. COLONEL, DISTRICT COMMANDER, NEW YORK. DATE TWENTY‑FIVE AUGUST NINETEEN FIFTY‑EIGHT. SUBJECT: UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT SIGHTED FOUR AUGUST NINETEEN FIFTY‑EIGHT BY VILLAGE OF WHIPPANY, NEW JERSEY. FOLLOWING SECTION: INTELLIGENCE OFFICER’S COMMENT. POSSIBLE FALLING STAR, FIREWORKS DISPLAY, EXPERIMENTAL TESTING AT NEARBY UNITED STATES ARMY ARSENAL. NONE OF THESE EXPLANATIONS CONFIRMED. END OF DOCUMENT. This record was declassified and made publicly available through The Black Vault archive, accessible at archive dot org slash download slash 1958‑08‑8860447‑TroyHill‑NewJersey slash 1958‑08‑8860447‑TroyHill‑NewJerseydjvu.txt. The release originates from a United States Air Force filing, identified as Project ONE ZERO SEVEN THREE, and was uploaded to the public domain without a specific FOIA case number. The United States Air Force, in its own contextual statement accompanying the file, described the document as a routine intelligence report concerning an unidentified aerial phenomenon observed by civilian witnesses in New Jersey on the specified date. This is what the public record looks like at its most ordinary. storyflo dot com, archive dot org slash download slash 1958‑08‑8860447‑TroyHill‑NewJersey slash 1958‑08‑8860447‑TroyHill‑NewJerseydjvu.txt.

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Army: Project One Zero Seven Three Record Card I.

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PROJECT ONE ZERO SEVEN THREE RECORD CARD I. DATE FOUR AUGUST NINETEEN FIFTY‑EIGHT. LOCATION TROY HILL, NEW JERSEY. TYPE OF OBSERVATION GROUND VISUAL. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION TWELVE SECONDS. NUMBER OF OBJECTS TWO. COURSE NORTH‑WEST TO SOUTH‑WEST. CONCLUSIONS POSSIBLY BALLOON. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING: OBJECTS VERY BRIGHT, CAME FROM WEST‑NORTHWEST AND DISAPPEARED IN THE SOUTH‑WEST.

Agency: Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
Date: JUL 18 · 2026
Release: Declassified · U.S. public record (FOIA)
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What was Army: Project One Zero Seven Three Record Card I. about?: PROJECT ONE ZERO SEVEN THREE RECORD CARD I. DATE FOUR AUGUST NINETEEN FIFTY‑EIGHT. LOCATION TROY HILL, NEW JERSEY. TYPE OF OBSERVATION GROUND VISUAL. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION TWELVE SECONDS. NUMBER OF OBJECTS TWO. COURSE NORTH‑WEST TO SOUTH‑WEST. CONCLUSIONS POSSIBLY BALLOON. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING: OBJECTS VERY BRIGHT, CAME FROM WEST‑NORTHWEST AND DISAPPEARED IN THE SOUTH‑WEST.
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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