PROJECT BLUE BOOK

UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT CASE FILES · 1947 – 1969

CASE REFERENCE9616481

DATE OF SIGHTINGSeptember 1950

REPORTED LOCATIONNashville Tenn

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. . PROJT CT 10073 16/23003.
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AF Ho. . L.OC.ATION.....Nashyille, Tenn...
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Inclosed herewith are the NASHVILLE
TENNESSEAN, Nashville, Te September, and the COMMERICAL
APPEAL, Memphis, Tennes - objects in
the sky.
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Streaks in Sky Mystity In Tennessee Skies
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NASHVILLE, Sept. 17.—(UP)-
Middle TennesseeObser Residents here and at Cookeville
) more than.50 miles to the east re-
ported seeing "bright orange
streaks" or "balls of fire" in the
Middle Tennesseans had their and neighboring towns to watch. sky shortly before dark Sunday
peaceful Sunday mildly disrupted Among them was Everett Derry- night.
yesterday with the late afternoon berry, president of Tennessee Joe Mabry, manage: of Radio
Polytechnic institute, who was Station. WHUB at Cookeville, said
appearance an elongated spe- stumped like the rest. he saw two parallel streaks travel-
. cies of "flying saucer." Uniformly the heavenly phe- ing slowly southwestward and vis-
From Cookeville, Livingston, nomenon was described as fol- ible for about 10 minutes. .
and Buffalo the way lows: Mabry said more than a dozen
and town folk Two orange-hued parallel lines persons telephoned his station to
of light, moving slowly (or maybe report seeing the streaks and to
craned thieir necks and speculated so high it just seemed slow) in a inquire about then. Among the
upon two odd streaks of light southwesterly direction. callers, he said, was Everette Der-
that appeared in the sky shortly ryberry, president of Tennessee
before 6 p.m., moving to the Berry field weathermen could Tech. . ..
Southwest. offer no precise explanation, but
Some said the flame colored they weren't excited. Probably
streaks were rockets. Others reflection," they said.
thought they marked the trail of WitnesSes at THE NASHVILLE
a pair of jet-planes. The more TENNESSEAN said the streaks were
imaginative spoke of "flying sau- at a great height and at a great
cers" and such. Skeptics said the distance. They settled on the jet-
sky was just playing tricks, that plane explanation.
it was the reflection of the sun Among those who sew the show,
on cumulus cloud formations. one sentiment seemed to prevail
At any raate it wasn't an opti- -In this day and time, b"cther,
cal illusion. Hundreds of people anything might happen."
. stood in the streets at Cookeville
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