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PROJECT 10073 RECONFIRMED

DATE OF INFO 16 Sept 1950

LOCATION Nashville, Tenn.

SOURCE Newspaper Article

DATE IN TO ATIC ---

COLOR Orange

SPEED slow

ALTITUDE high

LENGTH OF TIME OBSERVED ---

TYPE OF OBSERVATION Ground

MANEUVERS ---

REMARKS: Two orange hued parallel lines of light moved slowly across sky. Some observers feel that lines were jet trails while some called them balls of fire.

( CONTRAILS )

ATTIC NO. ---

AF NO. ---

REPORT NO. ---

DATE OF REPORT ---

TIME OF SIGHTING Betw. 1700 & 1800

SHAPE Parallel Lines

SIZE ---

COURSE SW

NO. IN GROUP 2

HOURS ---

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UNCLASSIFIED
HEADQUARTERS THIRD ARMY
FORT MCPHERSON, GEORGIA

AJACI-3 360.33 19 September 1950

SUBJECT: Unconventional Aircraft

TO: Commanding General
Air Materiel Command
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
Dayton, Ohio

Attention: MCI (Control No. A-1917)

Inclosed herewith are newspaper clippings from the NASHVILLE TENNESSEAN, Nashville, Tennessee, 18 September, and the COMMERCIAL APPEAL, Memphis, Tennessee, 18 September, re mysterious objects in the sky.

FOR THE COMMANDING GENERAL:

JOHN MEADE
Colonel, GSC
AC of S, G-2

1 Incl:
As stated above

UNCLASSIFIED

509.1
ended

File 15-55
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1930 5-2

# Streaks in Sky Mystify Middle Tennessee Observers

Middle Tennesseeans had their peaceful Sunday mildly disrupted yesterday with the late afternoon appearance of an elongated species of "flying saucer."

From Cookeville, Livingston, and Buffalo Valley, all the way to Nashville, farm and town folk craned their necks and speculated upon two odd streaks of light that appeared in the sky shortly before 6 p.m., moving to the Southwest.

Some said the flame colored streaks were rockets. Others thought they marked the trail of a pair of jet-planes. The more imaginative spoke of "flying sa…