Marietta, GeorgiaNovember 1957

Unidentified

Summary

On November 4, 1957, a civilian in Marietta, Georgia reported seeing a shiny object with big unusual light on its right side traveling in a straight path. The sighting was brief. One object was reported. The observer could not provide size, elevation, azimuth, or time. Several unknown aircraft were being tracked by radar in the Atlanta area. The description sounded somewhat like a rawindsonde balloon, but no known balloon launching stations could have released balloons visible in the area. The observer was vague about details and could not entirely comprehend the queries. The Air Force evaluation was unknown.

Reported location

Marietta, Georgia

Date of incident

November 1957

State / country

GA / US

Page count

3 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unidentified

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 29

Original case file scans

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PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD

1. DATE: 4 November 1957
2. LOCATION: Marietta, Georgia
12. CONCLUSIONS: [checkbox] Was Balloon [checkbox] Probably Balloon [checkbox] Possibly Balloon [checkbox] Was Aircraft [checkbox] Probably Aircraft [checkbox] Possibly Aircraft [checkbox] Was Astronomical [checkbox] Probably Astronomical [checkbox] Possibly Astronomical [checkbox] Other [checkbox] Insufficient Data for Evaluation [checkbox] Unknown

3. DATE-TIME GROUP: Level [blank] 0500-0530Z
4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION: [checkbox] Ground-Visual [checkbox] Air-Visual [checkbox] Ground-Radar [checkbox] Air-Intercept Radar

5. PHOTOS: [checkbox] Yes [checkbox] No
6. SOURCE: Civilian

7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION: Short glimpse
8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS: one
9. COURSE: not given

10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING: Shiny object with big unusual light on right side, traveling in a straight path.

11. COMMENTS: Observer could not give the size, elevation, azimuth or time in which cannot evaluate without these EBI's.

ATIC FORM 329 (REV 16 SEP 52)

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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28972755