Project 10073 Record — Aiken, South Carolina, November 1967

This document is a Project 10073 record concerning a UFO sighting reported by Sheriff Paul D. Grant of the Aiken County Sheriff's Office in Aiken, South Carolina, in November 1967. The observer reported seeing a red and blue light moving from North to South for approximately five minutes at an altitude of 4,000 feet, noting that the object made no sound. At the time of the sighting, a mission was in progress involving Century-type fighters or jets in the area. The Air Force responded to the report by informing Sheriff Grant that the information provided was insufficient for a scientific investigation and requested that he complete an AF Form 117. Internal Air Force analysis suggested that the sighting was likely a conventional aircraft flying at high altitude. Alternative explanations provided by the investigating officer included the possibility that the observer was seeing the beacon light at the Aiken Municipal Airport, lights on a radio tower at the air base, or red lights on poles that appeared to move because they were intermittently obscured by power lines or tree branches. The investigator concluded that the report did not constitute a valid UFO sighting, attributing it instead to natural phenomena or conventional aircraft.