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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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GHILES THEN WENT ON TO DESCRIBE THE OBJECT. HE SAID THE CABIN "APPEARED LIKE A PILOT COMPARTMENT ONLY BRIGHTER." HE SAID THE ILLUMINATION INSIDE APPROXIMATED THE BRILLIANCE OF A MAGNESIUM FLARE. "WE Saw NO OCCUPANTS. FROM THE SIDE OF THE CRAFT CAME AN INTENSE, FAIRLY DARK BLUE GLOW THAT RAN THE ENTIRE LENGTH OF THE FUSELAGE... LIKE A BLUE FLUORESCENT FACTORY LIGHT... " "THE EXHAUST WAS A RED-ORANGE FLAME." CHILES SAID IT EXTENDED 30 TO 50 FEET BEHIND THE OBJECT. "THEN," CHILES CONTINUED, "AS IF THE PILOT HAD SEEN US AND WANTED TO AVOID US, IT PULLED UP WITH A TREMENDOUS BURST OF FLAME FROM THE REAR..." ... AND ZOOMED INTO THE CLOUDS, ITS PROP WASH OR JET WASH ROCKING OUR D.C.3... THIS SAME "SPACE SHIP," THE REPORT STATED, WAS ALSO "SEEN BY GROUND OBSERVERS AT ROBBINS AIR FORCE BASE, MACON, GEORGIA (APPROXIMATELY ONE HOUR EARLIER) GOING IN A SOUTHERLY DIRECTION, TRAILING VARIED-COLORED FLAMES. . . " THE REPORT THEN WENT ON TO APPLY THE PRANOTL THEORY OF LIFT TO THE INCIDENT,INDICATING THAT.. "A FUSELAGE OF THE DIMENSIONS REPORTED BY CHILES AND WHITTED COULD SUPPORT A LOAD COMPARABLE TO THE WEIGHT OF AN AIR- CRAFT OF THIS SIZE AT FLYING SPEEDS IN THE SUB-SONIC RANGE." THE REPORT THEN CONCLUDED... "THE OBJECT IS STILL CONSICERED 'UNIDENTIFIED.'" THIS PROJECT SAUCER REPORT WAS MADE ON APRIL 27, 1949. YET IN DECEMBER OF THAT SAME YEAR, MAJOR JERE BOGGS, A PROJECT INTELLI GENCE OFFICER, STATED TO THE INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE. WHY DID PROJECT SAUCER CHANGE ITS MIND?
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