Columbia, TennesseeNovember 1957

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Summary

On the afternoon of Friday, November 8, 1957, about 100 people reported seeing an unidentified flying object over Columbia, Tennessee and Maury County. Some watched it through binoculars. Several experienced observers said it was a high-flying jet plane.

A local newspaper editor wrote to the Air Force. He said a check with the nearest filter center found no aircraft reported in the area at that time. He asked whether a foreign nation might be flying jets over the United States without the Air Force's knowledge.

The Air Force replied that this sighting had never been reported to its intelligence center and asked for more details. It said the idea that the object came from another country was entirely unfounded and that there was no evidence to support it.

The Air Force listed the case as aircraft. The record card called it an obvious aircraft sighting. This case is part of Project 10073, the Air Force's official record for unidentified flying object reports.

Reported location

Columbia, Tennessee

Date of incident

November 1957

State / country

TN / US

Page count

5 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 30

Original case file scans

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uo TR I (TH Fr RTT TTT I 70 EY BO ASRS RT PIT J 0007 0 00min br 5h ee fe re PIGS ER fatinte
A PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD cost
1. DATE : 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
O Wes Balloon
BR _Novembe s olumbia, Tennessee O Probably Balloon
3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4 TYPE OF OBSERVATION O Possibly Bolleon
® [KX Was Aircroft
Local — afternoon. WGround-Vi sual O Ground-Rader Q Probably Aireroft
nl TE T—— 0 AirVisual O AircIntercept Radar O Possibly Aircraft
5S. PHOTOS « SOU O Was Astronomical
QO Yes O Probably Astronomicol
TNo Civilian O Possibly Astronomical
7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS 9. COURSE DPI sii iisiistipinassasnsns :
O Insufficient Data for Evaluation 3
O Unknown jill
not reported one not reported
10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS
Object viewed by hundreds of people
some with BX, Believed by competent Obvious a/c.
observers to be a/c, Call to filter
| center revealed that no a/c were
supposedly in area, [ufo from lettex
suggesting that a/c may have been
foreign
ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP $2) }
| so of
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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28974233