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1. DATE

2. LOCATION

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Sep 55 Rock Garden, Tenn
3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION
Local %) Ground- Visual © Ground-Radar
cmt__09/18002, 0 Ar~ Visual © Air-Intercept Radar
5. PHOTOS é. $5URCE
' 0 Yes
& No civilian
7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 6. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE
0-15 min 1 N-NE

12. CONCLUSIONS

Was Balloon
Probably Balloon
Possibly Balloon

Was Aircraft
Probobly Aircroft
Possibly Aircraft

Was Astronomical
Probably Astronomical
Possibly Astronomical

Other__ UNIDENTIFIED

Insufficient Dota for Evaluotion
DOU nknown

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10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING

peed and moved off to NE.

lme t square, brownish, obj appeared to be
olid and moving in circular motion at slow

ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52)

11. COMMENTS
UNIDENTIFIED

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FROM (Alyrnicy) | PEPORT NO, On-UFOB-1,<55 Part Four
Flight 2-B, 4602d AISS Wi <b. te } wits

COMMENTS of Preparing Officer:

“ 1. Immediately upon receic’  2f this report all available military and
civilian organizations were calle. for additional information and/or identification,
No further information was chtained and no identification was made.

2. There were two military and three civilian aircraft in the immediate
vicinity at the approximate time of the sighting. Negative reports were made
regarding the object.

3. Negative information was received from the local astronomer regarding
astronomical phenomena. Nejjative information was received from the Knoxville
Filter Center and the 663d AC & W Sq regarding additional reports or observations
of the object. Negative information was received from liaxwell Flight Service)
and negative informnation was received from the two base fighter squadron intel-
ligence units,

lh. The weather stalicus at Nashville and Knoxville, Tennessee and
Asheville, North Carolina were contacted. The stations at Nashville and Knoxville
sent balloons up at 1500/7 tot tne station at Asheville does not send balloons
aloft. It was the opini:. of the personnel at Nashville that their balloon
was not responsible for tis silting because the rate of ascent of the balloon
is approximately 1000 ft ; 7 minute. Due to the distance between Nashville
and Alcoa, the balloon vy | lave been well out of sivht vertically even if
the winds had taken it i | direction. The winds at Nashville at the time
of the balloon release w oy that they conceivably could have carried the
balloon in this general ‘ion. The personnel at the Knoxville weather

station stated that they a? not feel the Nashville baiioon or their own could
have been responsible fcr the sighting due to the rapid rate of ascent of the
balloons. They also sant or: aloft at 15002.

5. This sighting =) «| to suggest some type of aircraft or balloon. It
was observed for ten to 2. minutes and therefore had a very slow rate of
speed, However, all inf® = -ion received regarding sich a possibility was
negative. The possibilit: ‘1b the object could have been-one of the two

military jet aircraft (2-0) in the air at the time was ruled out by SOURCE
when she stated that she ->‘d not tell whether or not the object made any
noise because jets were t-sirc off at the time. Those two were the only jets
aloft at the time, and ti: mre going up on a routine training flignt. It
is highly improbable that one of the three civilian airlines aircraft was
responsible for the sighting because they came directly into the Municipal
Airport without being in the air in the immediate vicinity for more than five
minutes, They did not change their courses radically as suggested by SOURCE.
They were also very low when passing over Alcoa. Balloons from local weather
stations must be ruled out on the basis of inform=tion received from the
personnel at the stations.

6. The preparing officer has no opinions regardiny this UFO8 unless it
was some other type balloon about which we have no information and which would
rise at a different rate of speed than weather balloons, or possibly reach
a pre-determined altitude and remain there as it moved horizontally across
country. It is interestinz to note, however, that in spite of the larce size

* the object and in spite of 5 long duration of the observation, no other
raports of a ground sighting were made. Neither were any ovservations made b;
personnel in the airborne aircraft in the immediate area at the time of the
sighting. Nothing showec up on radar screens and the possibility of its being
a weather balloon has been ruled out by weather personnel. Add this to the

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14. THERE WERE FIVE KNOWN AIRCRAFT IN IMMEDIATE AREA AT TIME OF SIGHTING
TWO MILITARY PILOTS OVSERVED NOTHING THEEE AIRLINES HAVING AIRCRAFT

IN AIR AT TIME OF SIGHTING WERE CALLED BUT REPORTED NEGATIVE OBSERVATIOSN
WEATHER CONDITIONS WERE CLEAR WITH GOCD VISIBILITY NO WEATHER BALLOSN
RELEASED IN IMMEDIATE AREA FOR THREE HOURS PREVICUS TO OR FOLLOWING
SIGHTING NO OBSERVATIONS RECCRDED ON RADAR NC CESERVATICNS CALLED

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SUBJECT

UFOB

AKEA REYORTED ON

CATEOF REPORT

12 September 1955

PREPARED BY (Ogfcer)

JAMES N KULPAN, lst Lt, USAF

REFERENCES (C1: iin na) mber, directive, previona teport «te. ar appiadle)

ALCOA, TENNESSE

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| FLIGHT 2-B, 4602D AISS

* NFORMATION | FVALLAT ON

9 September 1955 & 12 Sep 22

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Mrs (IE. 13 others

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_Sq Guide 200-2 dtd Mar 55, TT AIS2B 142

SUMMARY: Ck ‘nter comeled ve mmery of rep wel,

I. CONTENTS:

PAIL ONE:

FART

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PART Til

PART FOUR:

IT, SUIMiARY:

Girt sty aconece tn final one-awe yence pari JTOph. Laat one cléawrea at. oner kent Hezin text of report on . ir For im 1i9— Part 11)

Neseription of sighting by oR: in
Tannessee, Mrsa@@liggg is 31 years old and is a housewife,

Description of sighting by Mrs Aan ime.

iupplementary Investigative Efforts

ents of Preparing Officer

Umi s+ sighted by Mrs gga on Friday,

9 Sep 55 at 1800Z in Ro « «4r lens residential area of Alcoa, Tennessee East of

Aprt, ‘enn (GJGF 0144). GEOREF o ing was GJGF 0244, Mrs
pointes out object to Mrs a neighbor,
as they sat on lawn toze’ er. Information conta in “his report was obtained

from the persons observ’:

» object anZ from an inves tiy *ion Conducted to

determine the possible °. of sighting.

- INVASTIGATORS;  .:° LE JAMES N KULFAN, A03017263

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I. SOURCE: Si acral:
Address: Rn Reee Pome.
Age: 31 .
Occupation: Housewife
Education: Graduated from High School
Qualifications: No forma’ training. Ordinary sonbenegs

II. RELIABILITY: SOURCE was completely thorough with her description as far -

as she could remember. llitCh very cooperative and of average intelligence. SOURCE
changed shape of object onc,lherefore reliability of details questionable.

III. SOURCE'S DESH itiPr fol OF SIGHTING: SOURCE and Mr
were sitting in front ys: {1 > eee, Alcoa, Tennessee (GUJGF 02).
SOURCE observed object 3° )/!!0Z Sep 55 in air coming from the North and pointed
it out to Mrg@ii ew, °& then went into house for binoculars. Object came
from north and moved in : ilar motion. Almost overhead object turned eastward,
Speeded up and headed n: ehind trees and out of sight. Object was in sight

from ten to fifteen minutes but because of difficulty in finding binoculars it
was observed for only a short time through the binoculars as it was leaving.
SOURCE first stated objec’ wis almost square, colored brown and about the size of

a large beach ball held «+ ims length. Object larger than basketball and not as
_large as an ordinary aut" i'e tire held at arms length. Later SOURCE gave same
story ‘about size and ce , Stated object was solid and pointed like a rocket

and fiad small stubby wir. Jets from KcGhee-Tyson Mun Aprt (GJGF O14) were
taking off and no sound ’ ard from object. SOURCE had no ideas what object might

have been or what caused it.

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I. SOURCE: Mrs *aahMiUQRRRIITDRRenscs-
Adircs : Qa a eee
Age: 33 | |
Occupation: Housewife
Education: (Graduated from high school
Qualifications: No formal training. Ordinary housewife

II. RELIABILITY: SOURCE cooperative and of average intelligence. SOURCE did

not remember size or shape: well enough to describe thoroughly.
III. SOURCHE'S DESCRIPLIG) of SiGHTING: SOURCE and Mrs (es were

together at time of sightii.:. |, S ens LOL is same as Mrs Qi. (Sce

section I, Part one)

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Flight 2-B, 602d AISS

SUPPLEMENTARY INVESTIGATIVE EF. iTS:

1. <A check with the McGhee-Tyson Weather Station was made by Flight 2-5,
602d AISS and the followirs information was received: As of 091500Z Sep 55 there
were no clouds or wind. brizht sunny day with visibility of nine (9) miles. Winds
were: surface 5K i'm 300 des, 6000 ft 10K fm 300 deg, 10000 ft 6K fm 060 deg, 16000
ft 8K fm O40 deg, 20000 ft 7K fm O40 deg, 30000 ft 7K fm 030 deg, 50000 and
80000 ft not available. As of 092100Z Sep 55 the weather station reported still
there were no clouds. The day was still bright and sunny with a visibility of
nine (9) miles,

2. A check with the McGhee-Tyson flight flight service revealed three airplanes
from commercial airlines were in air at time of sighting. Airlines called but
reported neyotive observations,

3. The astronomer «| the University of Tennessee has no regular reporting
channels for information sid therefore had no information.

h. Knoxville Filter Cunter reported negative reports from observers.

5S. The 663d AC& » . in Lake City, Tennessee was contacted and reported
negative tracks in ares tting.

6. Pilots from McGh-<-Tyson Mun Aprt who were taking off at time of spotting
were contacted andreported negative sightings.

7. Base intelliger-+ ‘ficer reported negative.

8. The Asheville . «oy Station in Asheville, North Caralina (GJHF 2735)
was contacted and they s'.. 2. they do not send up weather balloons.

9. Mra tecrologist at the Weather Bureau Airport Station in
Nashville, Tennessee (GJ °210) was contacted and he indicated that a weather
balloon was released fro:; }.ls station at 15002 on the date of spotting. Spotting

occurred at 1800Z which iis only a lapse of three hours for the balloon to travel
approximately 175 miles. .
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10. Maxwell Flight Service in Montgomery, Alabama (FJDD 1015) was contacted.
Captain Buswell, Operations Officer, reported no experimental aircraft in air that
day and that no flight plans were filed for flights to be in the area of spotting.

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FORT "© OB-UFOB=ly=55 Part Four Cont'd |
Flight 2-3, 4602d AISS

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COMMENTS of Preparing Officer Continued:

fact that SOURCE changed her description of the object from being almost square
in the preliminary investigation to being pointed like a rocket and havine stubby

wings in the follow-up investigation, and one can only wonder about the aban raid
of this report.

AMES N 7 Nelo
st Lt USAF
OIC Flight 2-3

COMMENTS of Approving ©: > .4r:

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1. Dus to the change of description of the object from “almost square and
about the size of a teach:all held at arms length” to "pointed like a rocket with

small stubby wings”, it t» ‘ie opinion of this headquarters that the witness can
be considered unreliabl.«

2. In view of the «+s, it can be assumed that thp SOURCE is probably in
‘error in other statement « wh as the duration of the sicphting. It 1s the opinion
of this headquarters that the SOURCE possibly misinterpreted ons or more of the
aircraft known to be in t's area at the time of the sighting.