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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.

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  • p. 51 …waves, nor was there any wash or mechanical disturbance when the object passed. No sound was…
  • p. 52 …IT ZOOMED INTO THE CLOUDS, ITS ACT WASH ROCKING OUR DC-3.* ESTIMATED THE UFO-S…
  • p. 56 …the aircraft passed them, they said, their DC-3 fluttered in the "prop-wash, jet-wash…
  • p. 59 …AND ZOOMED INTO THE CLOUDS, ITS PROP WASH OR JET WASH ROCKING OUR D.C.3…
  • p. 60 …3 battered in the "prop wash, jet wash or rocket-wash." the pilots said. "It sent…
  • p. 61 …The Force appealed at Wash- ington suggested a possibility that the strange craft might have been…
  • p. 63 …Hundreds of telephone calls flooded the Civil Aeronautics Administration office in Yakima, Wash., today from persons…
  • p. 73 …waves, nor was there any wash on peristaltic latusference during the object motion. No sound was…
  • p. 82 …There was no prop wash or rough air felt as it passed. After talking to the…
  • p. 87 …waves, nor was there any wash or mechanical disturbance when the object passed. No sound was…
  • p. 95 …waves, nor was there any wash or mechanical disturbance when the object passed. No sound was…
# United States REPORT NO. 102-122-79 AIR INTELLIGENCE INFORMATION REPORT

Unidentified Flying Object

Alabama, Georgia, and Virginia Tech Intelligence Div. Intelligence Dept, Wright-Patterson AFB, Dayton, Ohio 20 December 1948 24 and 26 July 1948 A-2

Robert R. Sneider, Captain, USAF

Proj. "SIGN" ltr. Dept. of the AF, Hq USAF, dated 30 Dec 47 "Flying Discs"

Detailed interrogations have been completed of persons reporting undeter- mined flying objects in the vicinity of Montgomery, Alabama, 24 and 26 July 1948, between the hours of 2130 and 0245.

Analysis has been made of the compiled statements and the other available evidence of each individual interrogated. The analysis was undertaken as only one of 219 reported incidents with an objective of arriving towards a definite pattern or trend in order to determine whether the objects reported were of domestic or alien origin, or a natural phenomena.

COMMENTS: Analysis of data under Incident #1444 reveals that four separate cases are involved; one having occurred on 24 July 1946 and the others on the 26 July 1946. A preponderance of evidence is available to establish that in almost all cases an unidentified object was seen within the times stated and on the same dates over an extended area pursuing a general course South. Descriptions as to size, shape, color and movements are fairly consistent.

APPROVED:

27. A. LLEWILYN

Actg Chief, Operations Section

Tech Intelligence Division

Intelligence Department

Robert Ameider

ROBERT R. AMEIDER

Captain, USAF Project Officer Special Projects Branch Technical Intelligence Division Intelligence Department

APPROVED:

R. CLINGZVAN Colonel, USAF IAF, Technical Intelligence Division Intelligence Department

DOWNGRADE AT A YEAR 12 YEARS. T-80200

DOD DIR 5200.10

(Orig. & 3 dup) Dir of Intell, Eq USAT Chief, Intell Dept, MCI Chief, Tech Analysis Div, MCIAT Ofc of Chief of Naval Opns, Attn: ONI

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