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1948 07 9670642 20Mi SofMontgomery Ala 144 (Project Blue Book case file)

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This Project Blue Book case file, digitized by the Internet Archive, covers Incident 144: two Eastern Airlines pilots reported that a wingless, cigar-shaped object with a flaming exhaust passed their DC-3 about 20 miles southwest of Montgomery, Alabama, on 24 July 1948. The file includes an OSI interview with a Robins Air Force Base employee who saw a similar object, negative aircraft traffic reports from many bases, and later correspondence. A December 1948 intelligence report found fairly consistent descriptions across four related sightings.

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  • p. 50 …waves, nor was there any wash or mechanical disturbance when the object passed. No sound was…
  • p. 51 …IT ZOOMED INTO THE CLOUDS, ITS ACT WASH ROCKING OUR DC-3.* ESTIMATED THE UFO-S…
  • p. 55 …the aircraft passed them, they said, their DC-3 fluttered in the "prop-wash, jet-wash…
  • p. 58 …AND ZOOMED INTO THE CLOUDS, ITS PROP WASH OR JET WASH ROCKING OUR D.C.3…
  • p. 59 …3 battered in the "prop wash, jet wash or rocket-wash." the pilots said. "It sent…
  • p. 60 …Its prop-wash or jet-wash rocked our DC-3." The light of the plane and…
  • p. 62 …Hundreds of telephone calls flooded the Civil Aeronautics Administration office in Yakima, Wash., today from persons…
  • p. 72 …waves, nor was there any wash on peristaltic latusference during the object motion. No sound was…
  • p. 81 …There was no prop wash or rough air felt as it passed. After talking to the…
  • p. 86 …waves, nor was there any wash or mechanical disturbance when the object passed. No sound was…
  • p. 94 …waves, nor was there any wash or mechanical disturbance when the object passed. No sound was…
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FH UE RC 16/DASE OPNS ECLIN AFD FLA CRFT
TO ULEC/TECHNICAL INTELLIGENCE DIV ARC WRIGHT PATT AFD OHIO
RESTRICTED
34 CITE HCIAKO-7-5 FOLLOWING INFO SUBMITTED AF 4791 D36 PILOT READ
ECLIN AFD TO HIAHI DEPPT 2011 OCT 23RD JULY 40 AIVD 0115 CST MATH JULY
40 TRUE 410 SPEED 265 THIS VALIDLY AIRCRAFT DIV IDTGD FROM THIS DATE ONLY THIS PRIOR END

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