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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 31st Fighter Wing Turner Air Force Base, Albany, Georgia SUBJECT: Aircraft Departure Report TO: Commanding General Headquarters Air Material Command Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio ATTENTION: NCTAXC-3 Reference your TIX NO1AXC-7-5, dated 31 July 1948, requesting de parture and arrival of aircraft, this Base, 24 July 1948, a negative report is submitted. FOR THE COMMANDING OFFICER: 12201 B. M. THOMPSON Major, U. AP Adjutant
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