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Project 10073 Record Card - Sighting over Birmingham, Alabama, 10 April 1958

📅 10 Apr 58 📍 Over Birmingham, Ala. 🏛 ATIC 📄 Record Card and Teletype Message
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Two pilots reported a high-speed, long, slender, silver object over Birmingham, Alabama, on April 10, 1958. The military investigation concluded the object was likely an aircraft dropping practice bombs or a fuel tank.

This document consists of a Project 10073 record card and an associated teletype message regarding an aerial sighting reported on April 10, 1958. At 0928 EST, two pilots from the 4th Two Target Squadron, Major Edward H. Avne and Captain Donald J. Lang, were flying at 31,000 feet when they observed a long, slender, silver object. The object was estimated to be at an altitude of approximately 40,000 feet, heading from North to South in the vicinity of Birmingham, Alabama. The witnesses reported that the object appeared to be dropping items as it traveled at an extremely high rate of speed. The report was forwarded by the 2596th Air Base Squadron at Carswell AFB to the Air Technical Intelligence Center (ATIC) and the 34th Air Division. The official conclusion recorded on the project card suggests that the observed phenomenon was an aircraft dropping practice bombs or a fuel tank.

Long slender obj. A silver streak(ing) seemed to be dropping off & disappeared aft of the flying obj which was traveling at an extremely high rate of speed.

Official Assessment

Believed to be an a/c dropping practice bombs or fuel tank.

The sighting was reported by two pilots flying at 31,000 feet. They observed a long, slender, silver object traveling at high speed, which appeared to drop objects. The official assessment suggests the phenomenon was an aircraft dropping practice bombs or a fuel tank.

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