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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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# HEADQUARTERS 158th Fighter Squadron, S. E. GEORGIA AIR NATIONAL GUARD CHATHAM FIELD SAVANNAH, GEORGIA 2 August 1948 Subject: Traffic at Chatham Field 24 July 1948. To : Commanding General, Air Material Command, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. ATTN: Technical Intelligence Division. 1. Refer ence telegram your office MCIAX0-7-5, 31/1917Z, this is to advise no arrivals or departures of aircraft at this station between the hours of 2400 and 0500, 24 July 1948. TARL C. BRUSHWOOD, Lt Col., A. H. G., Commanding.
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