Lake City, TennesseeNovember 1957

Insufficient Data

Summary

On November 7, 1957, a witness at Lake City, Tennessee, reported one object in the sky. The sighting was a ground visual observation that lasted about 45 minutes.

The object was round and red, about the size of a melon. It was seen moving up and down.

This case is part of Project 10073, the Air Force's official record for unidentified flying object reports. The Air Force listed the case as insufficient data. Officers said the long duration suggested an astronomical sighting but there was no positional data for evaluation. No full report was on file.

Reported location

Lake City, Tennessee

Date of incident

November 1957

State / country

TN / US

Page count

1 scanned page

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 30

Original case file scans

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PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD
I. DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS :
0 Woes Balloon
07 November 1957 Lake Cit Tennessee 0 br 14 i on
3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4 TYPE OF OBSERVATION O Possibly Belloon
Loco! PP xR Ground-Vi svel oO Ground-Rador 5 ono gy
emt 03/0015 QO Air Visuel O Air-Intercept Rodor |D Possibly Airereft
S.. PHOTOS . O Was Astronemicel |
QO Yes OD Probably Astronomicol :
Ck No ~ivili DO Possibly Astronomicol
7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE BE ITI ii i,
BX Insufficient Dete for Evaluation
: O Unknown
i 43 mi
. |10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS : / :
One round red object the size of a melo. Duration suggestive of astro
Object was seen moving up and down and sighting. No positional data
was 1in sight for 45 minutes, for evaluation.
| No report in file.
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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28974177