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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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## (4) Incident 4 Object #4 was observed by Mr. & Mrs. between the hours of 20:50 to 20:50, 26 July 1948, at Chamblee, Georgia and Augusta, Georgia. Description of this object seems to indicate that it was a meteor. Five of the observers said that the object was "football shaped"; that it appeared to be a green light with a silvery tail and that it observed level flight. The last observer stated that the speed was "10,000 to 20,000 mph" and that "it appeared to be 1/4 the size of a full moon", and that "it was a multi-colored, brilliant light trailing burning fragments." The terrific speed together with the description of a multi-colored light trailing burning fragments seems to establish this object as a meteor. ## D. COMMENTS 1. The only incident which possesses absolute intelligence significance is incident #1. It is obvious that this object was not a meteor. There has been no evidence to support any findings of unreliability, nor have there been any major inaccuracies on the part of the witnesses. 2. Weather reports establish areas of visibility as stated in the observers' reports. j. Available Information from Ordinance, Army, Navy and AF Weather Bureau, Research Organizations, and other, failed to reveal any evidence of testing devices to which this incident could be attributed. 4. Apparently it is not of domestic origin since a thorough check of 225 flight schedules, both commercial and governmental, revealed that in only one instance did the reported flight paths cross. (See chart inclosed as Exhibit "I". This single exception was the flight in a northwestern direction of a C-47 enroute Robins AF Base to Olmsted Field, Pa. Its time of departure would have enabled it to have passed through the approximate areas on the 24 July 1948 where the sightings were reported. However, the factors of speed direction of flight, maneuvers, lights and other factors rule out this one possibility. 5. Objects similar in configuration have been reported as follows: a. Incloat-11ka objects capable of intense speed were seen during the past summer in broad daylight in Denmark, Norway and Sweden. at Obrechstreet, Arnhein, The Hague, Holland. The object was seen intermittently through clouds and was reported to have two decks.
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