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This Project Blue Book case file, released through The Black Vault, collects records on the 24 July 1948 sighting by two Eastern Airlines pilots of a wingless object about 20 miles southwest of Montgomery, Alabama. It contains teletype replies from military bases reporting no aircraft movements, a 1948 Project Sign special investigation report with an interview of a Robins Air Force Base witness, and a December 1948 intelligence report. It also includes newspaper extracts, a Harvard College Observatory letter and Hynek's Project Grudge evaluation index.
Two Eastern Air Lines pilots reported Saturday that their plane Friday night passed a tremendous wingless aircraft that shot 40 feet of flame from the back end and was traveling 500 - 700 miles per hour. Capt. and Co-pilot said the object looked like a B-29 fuselage "blown up about 4 times" and was brilliant- ly lighted with 3 decks of big square windows. The object passed within several hundred feet of the DC-3 and then shot up into the clouds. NOTING GRADED AT 3 YEAR INTERVAL 31 DECLASSIFIED AFTER 12 YEARS. DOD-DUR 6200.10
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