Tallassee, AlabamaMay 1960

Insufficient Data

Summary

On May 19, 1960, a witness in Tallassee, Alabama, saw a small object high in the sky. The card lists the sighting as a ground visual observation of one object.

The object was small and round. It appeared extremely high and looked white and clear. At times it seemed bright and shiny. The object faded away in a fog.

This report was filed under Project 10073, the Air Force's official record for unidentified flying object reports. The Air Force said that because of the very meager information received, the report could not be evaluated with any degree of certainty.

Reported location

Tallassee, Alabama

Date of incident

May 1960

State / country

AL / US

Page count

4 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 38

Original case file scans

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Sy .. .. [PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD : i
1. DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
0 Was Balloon .
19 May 60 Tallassee, Alabama D Probably Balloon
3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4 TYPE OF OBSERVATION Q. Possibly Balloon
QO Was Aircraft
Local (XGround-Visval 0 Ground-Rador a p robobly Atveraht
GMT 2 0Z 60 0 AirVisvol 0 Air-Intercept Radar 0 Possibly Aircraft
5. PHOTOS . O ‘Was Astronomical
Yes O Probably Astronomical
& No Civilian O Possibly Astronomical
7. LENGTH OP OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE Be TIN iii laisninnans
le 4 Insufficient Dota for Evaluation
2 min one not given 0 Unknown |
10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING = 11. COMMENTS J fed
Small round object, extremely high, white-cleay In view of the very meager information |
looking. Sometimes appearing bright and shiny. | received, this report cannot be evaluated
Object faded away in a fog. with any degree of accuracy. |
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