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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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Macedonian question could cause an irreparable split between Yugoslavia. Bulgaria and Albania. movement in Munich, said the Congress would discuss "Catholics and peace." largely because the elemental principals were fundamentally neglected. "Our representatives at Lon- # Flame-Spitting Aerial Monster Rocked Their DC-3, Pilots Report ATLANTA, July 24 (UP). Two pilots of Eastern Air Lines today announced they had encountered a giant, wingless, flame-throwing aircraft straight out of Buck Rogers. Capt. Charles Shipe Chiles and John B. Whitted. his co-pilot, corroborated each other's report of the fantastic plane. They were flying in a DC-3 Eastern Airliner at 5,000 feet about 20 miles southwest of Montgomery, Ala., early today when the thing came at them, they said. It looked like a B-29 "blown up about four times" and stripped of its wings. "The first thing that came to my attention was the long It cast a light more vivid than lightning, they said. They saw two decks of big square windows and "It was a man-made thing, all right." they added. Capt. Chiles said: stream of flame cofing out of the rear end of the plane, or whatever it was. "Then I noticed the two rows of square windows-we couldn't see any people aboard. "The aircraft seemed to be about four times the circumference of a B-29 fuselage but it was only a little longer. There were no wings whatever. "The plane passed us on our right, then. as if the pilot had seen us and wanted to avoid us, it zoomed up at 500 to 700 miles per hour into the same cloud it came out of. A 40-foot red flame shot out its rear end. "A luminous glow, like a giant flourescent light, ran along the belly of the thing." As the aircraft passed them, they said, their DC-3 fluttered in the "prop-wash, jet-wash or rocket-wash." "It sent out tremendous shock waves," he added. Chiles and Whitted said 20 passengers were aboard their plane but all were asleep except C. L. McKelvie of Columbus. O. They said McKelvie's story jibed with theirs when they talked about it later.
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