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Project Blue Book file, RB-47, July 17, 1957

USAF / The Black Vault · 57 pages · text by GLM-OCR

This Project Blue Book file, released through The Black Vault, covers the RB-47 encounter of 17 July 1957 over Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas and Oklahoma. It includes the record card, which lists the sighting as identified as American Airlines flight 655, and Air Defense Command correspondence that carried the sighting as unknown. There is also Major Lewis D. Chase's observer data sheet and an electronic analysis finding it difficult to conclude nothing was present. James McDonald's reconstructed account is included, along with a CAA letter about airliner incidents.

  • p. 3 # HEADQUARTERS AIR DEFENSE COMMAND UNITED STATES AIR FORCE ENT AIR FORCE BASE, COLORADO ADODI-B 15…
  • p. 4 …UFOB Sighting ADODE-B 2nd Ind 17 OCT 1957 Headquarters, Air Defense Command, Ent Air Force…
  • p. 16 …Yet the Wing Intelligence Officer's report to Strategic Air Command Headquarters contains only spotty data…
  • p. 28 …radar station commander to Air Defense Command Headquarters within four hours of the incident (14:45Z…

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