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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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# 24 July 1948 they do克斯 At 2:45 in the morning, the pilot and co-pilot of an Eastern Airlines DC-3, dying at 5,000 feet between Mobile and Montgomery, Alabama sighted a dull red exhaust some 700 feet ahead, a little above and to the right of the airliner. Captain the pilot, immediately turned to his co-pilot, and remarked: "Look, here comes a new Army jet job". 500 MPH The object approached in a allight dive, deflected a little to the left and passed the plane on the right, almost level and parallel to flight path, at a distance of approximately one-half miles. After panning, it pulled up sharply and disappeared into a cloud. The object appeared to be a wingless aircraft, 100 ft. long, cigar-shaped and about twice the diameter of a "B-19". It had no fins or protruding surfaces. thought it had a "snout" similar to a radar pole on the front and he had the impression there was a cabin with windows above much like a pilot compartment -- except that it appeared brighter. The illumination inside the body itself approximated the brilliance of a magnesium flare. He saw no occupants nor did visible from the side only, was an intense, fairly dark, blue glow running the entire length of the object beneath the fuselage.
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