Project 10073 Record: Sighting Report - Nashville, Tennessee, 16 September 1950

This document consists of a military report and accompanying newspaper clippings regarding a sighting of unidentified aerial phenomena over Middle Tennessee on September 16, 1950. Between 1700 and 1800 hours, numerous witnesses, including the president of the Tennessee Polytechnic Institute, observed two orange-hued parallel lines of light moving slowly in a southwesterly direction. The sighting was reported across several locations, including Nashville, Cookeville, Livingston, and Buffalo Valley. The phenomenon was visible for approximately ten minutes. While some observers speculated that the objects were rockets or 'flying saucers,' others suggested they were jet trails. Weathermen at Berry Field offered no precise explanation, though they suggested the lights might have been a reflection. The military documentation, issued by Headquarters Third Army at Fort McPherson, Georgia, forwarded these reports to the Air Materiel Command at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base for further review under Project 10073.