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This Air Intelligence Information Report was issued by the Technical Intelligence Division at Wright-Patterson AFB under Project SIGN and dated 20 December 1948. It analyzes reports of unidentified flying objects seen on 24 and 26 July 1948 across Alabama, Georgia and Virginia, among them the cigar-shaped object that Eastern Airlines pilots Chiles and Whitted saw near Montgomery. The report treats some of the sightings as meteors. It concludes the Chiles-Whitted object was not a meteor and remains unidentified as to origin, construction and power source.
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# AIR INFORMATION REPORT Tech Intelligence Div Intelligence Department Wright-Patterson AFB, Dayton,Ohio 102-122-79 ## (3) Incident #3 (Continued) Although the dates seem to indicate that this sighting could not be the same as that described in Incident 1, yet the major portion of this testimony refers to a "blue white light". Observations in the first instance describe a "blue glow" running the entire length of the fuselage. When viewed from the ground it is logical to assume that the blue glow would be mostly visible. NOTE: In this connection, Dr. Josef Allen Rynek, astro-physicist, OSURF, who is presently to serve as consultant on this project, has advised that it is possible for a celestial body to appear to travel in a straight line and plant downwards. (It is extremely improbable, although aerodynamically possible, for some objects to achieve an effect of lift through the forces generated during their flight through the atmosphere). It is further opinion that it is impossible for any celestial body to maneuver violently and make sharp turns. It is extremely unlikely for heavenly bodies to appear to move slowly when passing through the lower layers of the atmosphere, but, from greater distances, it is possible to observe far-distant bodies for extended periods of time. Objective size in contingent upon (1) distance of the heavenly body from the earth and (2) its mass. The manner of disappearance of a meteor is like a light suddenly blinking off. (4) Incident 44 Object was observed by Shaw, Kr. and Mrs. Jobring, Mrs. Hill, Mrs. Enfroe and Mr. Secrist between the hours of 2045 and 2050, 26 July 1948, at Pamblee, 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 oilvery 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 fragment seems to establish this object as a meteor. ## 7. ODGMENTS: 1. The only incident which possesses absolute intelligence significance is Incident 11. 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. c. Neither reports end ablion areas of visibility a. total in the observers reports. 3. Available information from Ordnance, Army, Navy and AF Nother Burons, Research Organizations, and other, failed to reveal any evidence of testing devices to which the incident could be attributed. DOWNSGRADED AT 3 YEAR INTERVALS T-80200
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