Project Blue Book Case #10899. On August 26, 1966, witnesses near Gaylesville, Alabama — a tiny community in Cherokee County near the Georgia border — observed a bright object in the sky. Gaylesville sits in the foothills of the southern Appalachians, surrounded by the deep forests and narrow valleys of northeastern Alabama.
The summer of 1966 continued the elevated activity that had characterized the entire year. Alabama, while less prominent than Michigan or Ohio in the UFO record, contributed cases from its rural communities where dark skies and quiet conditions made any anomaly conspicuous.
The case was classified "Unknown."