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Aviation encounter — 40 mi.south of Memphis, Tennessee — 1989-10-23

United States1989-10-23

40 mi.south of Memphis, Tennessee, United States

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Case description

A twin-engine aircraft pilot reported an aerial observation at or near 40 mi.south of Memphis, Tennessee on 23 October 1989. The account reports that a giant solid circular metallic-looking object crossed the plane’s path. Source: Dominique F. Weinstein, Unidentified Aerial Phenomena: Eighty Years of Pilot Sightings (NARCAP TR-04, February2001), PDF page53, table row5.

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