Murfreesboro, TennesseeMay 1960

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Summary

On May 21, 1960, a witness in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, saw a bright object in the sky. The card lists one object that approached the observer.

The object looked smooth and somewhat like a disc. It was about the size of a star and very bright blue, like the planet Venus. As it came closer it grew bigger and then appeared to burst.

This report was filed under Project 10073, the Air Force's official record for unidentified flying object reports. The Air Force concluded the description matched a balloon in flight that then burst, and the card marked the case as probably a balloon.

Reported location

Murfreesboro, Tennessee

Date of incident

May 1960

State / country

TN / US

Page count

3 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 38

Original case file scans

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EE PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD al
I. DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
el May, 1960 tlurfreesboro, Tennessee 0, Wes Bolloon
XX Probobly Bolloon
3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION WL NPIS Wow
O Was Aiveraft
LONE caiman Ground. Vi sval O Ground-Roder O Probably Aircraft
eMT.25/0115% 0 Air Visvol O Air-Intercept Radar |O Possibly Aircraft
5. PHOTOS . DO Wos Astronomical
QO Yes : OD Probably Astronomicol
Ne Civilian : DO Possibly Astronemicol
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7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE EB UMM sensible
O Insufficient Dato for Evaluation
6 Minutes One into 6 Basterly 0 Unknown
SHEE REE ORR AER GER RR ROR he CIR. OR CNR RI
10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS
Smooth object, somewhat like a disc, size Description of sighting conforms
of a star, very bright blus like Venus exactly to the description of a
observed approaching observer. It got bigzer| Ftalloon in flight and then bursting,
add then after 5 minutes, ol jost disappeared] <The windsand direction of flight of the
and was replaced by 6 or 7 small lights like| object are identical, as is thz duratioh
a constallation. These fadad out after abouyt| Of the sighting and the distance
one minute. travel led by the object prior to it's
disappearance, Case listad 8s a ballcon
observation.
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