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Case FileNARA NAID 28937931 · T1206 Roll 7

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Tuscaloosa, Ala., June 1950June 1950

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Summary

On June 23, 1950, at 1 p.m., a newspaper editor in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, reported a telephone call about a sighting. Twenty to thirty people saw a flaming red cross moving slowly across the sky over the outskirts of Tuscaloosa. The object was red in color and visible for about thirty minutes at an altitude of approximately five thousand feet. It then disappeared into a thunderhead cloud that had moved over the object. The Air Force evaluation codes indicated the immediate informant was unreliable, witnesses were unknown, and the information source was unknown.

Reported location

Tuscaloosa, Ala., June 1950

Date of incident

June 1950

State / country

? / XX

Page count

3 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 7

Original case file scans

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DATE 1/1900 - 23 June 50
LOCATION Tuscaloosa, Ala.
CIVILIANS 21-30 Civilians
TIME 1300
SHAPE Red Cross
SIZE 5000'
DURATION 30 Minutes
SPEED OF OBJECT Ground

Newspaper editor received call that num or of people had seen a flaming red cross moving slowly across the sky.
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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28937931