Project 10073 Record — Greenville, South Carolina, 15 August 1949

On 15 August 1949, at 1930E, an unidentified flying object was observed over Greenville, South Carolina. The sighting was reported by two witnesses, one of whom was an employee at the Greenville Municipal Airport. The report was relayed to the Maxwell Flight Service Center via the Atlanta Air Route Traffic Control Center using the Plan 62 interphone system. The witnesses described the object as a fairly large, grey, round entity moving in a northeasterly direction at an undetermined speed. They noted that the object maintained a constant speed and altitude, and that it produced no sound and left no exhaust trail. The altitude was estimated to be 5,000 feet or less. Following the report, the operations section of the 316th Troop Carrier Wing conducted an investigation into the incident. They concluded that the object was a Geological Weather Service balloon, which they believed had been released in Tennessee. The document, issued by the Maxwell Flight Service Center on 16 August 1949, is marked as unclassified and notes that no photographs or sketches of the object were available.