Project 10073 Record Card and Spot Reports — Macon, Georgia, August 24, 1952

This document contains a collection of reports and correspondence regarding an unidentified flying object sighting in Macon, Georgia, on the evening of August 24, 1952. The primary report, issued by the Headquarters of the Warner Robins Air Materiel Area, details interviews conducted with two witnesses who observed an object at approximately 2030 hours. One witness, a teletype supervisor at Robins Air Force Base, described the object as half-spherical, dark in color with a bright, reddish-orange light emitted from a rounded end. He observed the object through 10-power binoculars, noting that it appeared to be a saucer standing on end before receding into the distance. A second witness, an employee at Macon Hospital, described the object as resembling a huge light bulb, approximately three to four feet high, and reddish-orange in color. Both witnesses reported that the object moved slowly in a horizontal line toward the southwest. The official investigation, coordinated by the Air Technical Intelligence Center, concluded that the sighting was likely caused by a weather balloon released from Robins Air Force Base, noting that the observers were inexperienced and that the sighting occurred at sunset. The file includes completed observer questionnaires, drawings provided by the witnesses, and internal military correspondence confirming the lack of other aircraft in the vicinity that could account for the sighting.