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   SUBJECT: NASHVILLE TENNESSEE SIGHTING REPORT                 FILE: UFO1255   
      
      
   CASE # 102689TN - Location: 60 miles west of Nashville on Interstate 40.  Lead   
   Investigator: John Komar, SD. While driving from Nashville to Memphis on a   
   clear, sunny day, three occupants in a car noticed two very bright sun-lit   
   objects in the sky southwesterly from their location, at approximately 5:00   
   p.m.  The witnesses stated the objects "were very bright as if they were   
   reflecting the sun."  The objects, each believed to be at least 1 1/2 times   
   the size of the "Goodyear blimp", were stated to be approximately 1500 feet   
   above the ground, with one being higher than the other.  The seemed to not be   
   moving.   
      
        Actual duration of the sighting was about five minutes.  The witnesses   
   stopped watching the object for a moment, and when they looked again the two   
   objects had disappeared.   
      
        The primary witness has training as an aircraft pilot, and has been   
   employed by an airline company for a number of years in different locations   
   throughout the country.  This witness firmly states that the objects he had   
   seen were not aircraft, helicopter, nor dirigible.  No sounds were reported to   
   have been heard.  Distance to the objects was about 3-5 miles.   
      
        There might be another witness to this sighting, or a similar craft on   
   around the same date. Below is a message I received from Jerry Woody, MUFON   
   member in Alabama. (Jerry also runs a ParaNet BBS):   
      
      
   Message number 2057 in "MUFONET"   
   Date: 03-07-90  19:57   
   From: Jerry Woody   
   To:   John Komar   
   Subj: Re: Tennessee Sighting Report   
      
   Hi John;   
      
   This sounds very similar to a sighting I had in Hartselle a few months ago. I   
   'ran it up the pole' by writing to some Hartselle Users here on the Frontier   
   but nothing came of it and I dismissed it as an aircraft. Now I'm not too   
   sure.   
   The date, unfortunately, is unknown since I had dropped reporting the object   
   but probably occurred 2-3 months ago. Kathy was driving South on Hwy 31   
   through the town of Hartselle in North central Alabama. I was reading a   
   magazine in the passenger side when a metallic reflection directly in front of   
   and up caught my eye. I glanced up at it and saw a fairly small object   
   vigorously reflecting sunlight and shaped somewhat like a 'crooked, bent   
   finger'.  I went back to reading when it dawned on me that something wasn't   
   right. It had no tail section and wasn't going quite right for a normal plane.   
   Too much reflection like it was rotating, spinning, etc. I looked back up just   
   to see the object apparently turn. The metallic reflection was replaced by a   
   small dark circle which in a space of 2 seconds closed in on itself and the   
   entire object disappeared.  This occurred approximately. 3pm. Sky was sunny   
   with some high Cirrostratus in the Western Sky. I estimate the object height   
   at 2500 to 3000 feet. Jet aircraft contrails was observed at app. 10000 ft. +   
   where the condensation level was.  This object created no contrail and was   
   certainly no small light plane. The object was observed for a total of perhaps   
   10 seconds.  The sky was clear and blue in the background and when it   
   disappeared it left without a trace.   
      
   Jerry.   
      
      
                    
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