uo. 1n cmour 2 . 'i~\;D&t"~Orar)' ATIC LOC.\TION Nyh:vil.J:!tL..leM. ------... DATF. Ill TO A'l'IC - ALTITUDT~ _ _.h~a.~i o~rJt LF.NGTH OF rur.;; om~to.HVl~l> t.IANio:tJVT~ns - - -. llFJIARKS a Two orange hued po.rallel linea ot li&bt moved slowly across sky. Some a teel that lines were jet trails ::.:,::_::.:::_:C:;alled them balle o tire JJACI -s seo. ss 19 September 1950 SUBJBO! 1 UnooDTentional Airorart 1 OotaMncling General Air JJateriel Cona~and lfrisht-Patterson Air Poroe Baae Dayton, Ohio Attention a HOI (O,ntrol lfo. A-1917) Inclosed herewith are newspaper olippin~s t'rom 't;he NAS!MJ.,l,~ T~NNESSEAN, Nashville, Tennessee, 18 September, and the COl'l.t'~ICAL APPEAL, Memphis, Tennessee, 18 Septembor, re mysterious objects in A t;tted above JOHN MEADE UNCLASSJEIEQ Strea s 1n Middle Tennessee Middle Tenn .... ana had their peaeeful Iunday mildly dlampled ,..terdQ wtth the late afternoon appearance of an elon1ated ape- cl of "flJin~ aueer." Wa01n Cookeville, Llvln~aton, aad Buffalo Valley, all tbe way to Naahvllle, farm and town folk craned Uielr neeka and apeeulaled upon t"'o odd atreaki of light tbat appeared ln the aky ahortly I p.m., moving to the louthweat. lome aald the name colored atraaka were rockets. Other tbou~ht they marked the trail of pair of jet-planea. The more lmartnatlve apoke of "rtyln~ aau- cen" and auch. 8keptlca aald the aky wu juat playing trlcka, that It wu the reflectt<Jn of the aun on cumulua cloud tormatlona. At any ru.te lt wun't an opti- Hundred of people . atood In tbe atreeta at Cookeville and neltrhborlng towna to watch. Amon~ them waa Everett Derry- berry, prealdent of Tenneuee Polytechnic lnatltute, who wu atumped like the reat. lJnlformly tbe heavenly phe- wu deacrlbed u fol- Two oran~e-hued parallel linea of light, movln~ alowly (or maybe 10 high It juat aeemed alow) ln a aouthweaterly direction. Berry field weathermen could offer no preelae explanation, but they weren't excited. "Probably reflection,'' they aald. at THE NASHVILLE TENNESSEAN aald the alreaka were at a &Teat height and at a great dlatance. They aeltled on the jet- plane explanation. Among thoae who ac.w the ahow, aentlment aeemed to .. prevail -"In thla day and time; b"t'ther, anythln~ ml~ht happen." - NASHVILLIC, Se:rt tT.-<UP>- Realdenu here an at Cookeville more thaa.IO. mllea .to t.he eut re- ported Htlng "brl~ht oraqe atnaka" or "balll of fire" In the lkJ aboril7 before dark Iunday Joe MabfJ,_ manalf of Radio I ltatloaa. WHUB at Cookeville, aald be aaw two parallel atreaka travel- Ing alowl7 aouUlweatward and vla- about 10 mlnutea. Mabi'J aald more than a doaen . telephoned hla atatlon to ~eport aeeln~ tbe atreaka and to Inquire about then1. Amon1 Ole caUera. be aald, wu Everette Der- ryberfJ,. 11realdent of Tenneaaee