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SUBJECT: 11/86 SIGHTING IN TALLADEGA, AL. FILE: UFO1356
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Report #: 202
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From: UFO INFO SERVICE
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Date Sent: 12-10-1986
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Subject: TALLADEGA, AL
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CASE TYPE: LRS
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DATE: 10 NOVEMBER 1986
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TIME: UNKNOWN
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CFN#: 0324
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DURATION: UNKNOWN
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WITNESSES: MANY
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SOURCE: DAILY HOME, TALLADEGA, AL
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A red glowing light with a tail that flared across the sky in the southeast
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prompted searches in several states for traces of a possible meteor or other
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space object, but no remants have been found, authorities said Tuesday.
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The flashing light was spotted about sunset Monday over parts of Tennessee,
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Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi as it streaked westward, and aviation
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officials said it was probably a meteor.
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Maj. Walter Chipchase, a spokesman for the North American Air Defense
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Command, said the light was not believe to be a disintegrating rocket or
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satellite.
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"NORAD did not detect any rocket body or space debris re-entering the
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atmosphere," he said.
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Sgt. Ray Williams, a spokesman for Eglin Air Force Base in Fort Walton,
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Beach, Fla., also said no weather balloons or flights were launched from the
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base at the time the light was seen.
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Although authorities said the object likely burned in the atmosphere
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hundreds of miles from Earth, some local officials looked for fragments in
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fields and other areas where residents reported sightings.
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Joe Keltch, a deputy with the Rhea County Sheriff's Department in East
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Tennessee, said he scoured an area near Graysville where a caller told
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authorities something had fallen out of the sky.
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"We got a report that it might have been a piece of a plane," he said. "We
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looked around and didn't find anything."
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An area near Ducktown in the southeastern corner of Tennessee also was
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checked, but no debris was found, said Polk County sheriff's dispatcher Edna
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Wilcox. "So far, we haven't seen or heard anything," she said.
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Searches also were conducted in Fannin County in northern Georgia, Cullman
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County in northern Alabama and other areas as hundreds of calls were made to
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airports and local authorities but no one turned up any evidence of the
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object, officials said.
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"There were reports that it was a fireball falling out of the sky, a downed
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plane, a possible satellite explosion...or a shooting star." said Gene Jones,
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director of the Gilmer County (Ga.) Emergency Management Agency. "Apparently
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it was a meteorite entering the atmosphere."
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Curley Wainwright, traffic control supervisor at McGhee Tyson Airport in
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Knoxville, Tenn., said the light had "quite a red glow and a tail behind it"
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when he saw it behind some clouds.
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Other sightings were reported in eastern Mississippi around Meridian,
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Birmingham and Montgomery in Alabama and Morristown and Chattanooga in
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Tennessee.
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Jones said chances of finding any pieces of the object were slim.
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"A meteorite could be the size of a pin-point to a bowling ball," Jones
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said. "It's like trying to find a needle in a haystack. It may have landed
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on the ground, but where, God knows."
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