Summary of Information: Unidentified Object Sighted over Ft. McPherson, Georgia, 10 July 1950

On July 10, 1950, at approximately 10:25, two members of the 111th CIC Detachment stationed at Fort McPherson, Georgia, observed an unidentified aerial object. The witnesses, identified as a WOJG (whose name is partially obscured) and WOJG Francis J. Riley, reported seeing a small, bright metallic object in the northwest sky. The object remained in view for approximately fifteen minutes, during which time it traveled in an easterly direction at a slow rate of speed. The observers noted that the object maintained an unpredictable, very high altitude before it was eventually obscured by low-hanging clouds. Following the sighting, the Office of Special Investigations (OSI) in Marietta, Georgia, was notified immediately. This report was formally transmitted on July 11, 1950, by Colonel John Meade of the Headquarters Third Army to the Commanding General of the Air Materiel Command at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, under the control number A-1917. The document includes a summary of information and was later declassified under DOD Directive 5200.10.