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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.
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# HEADQUARTERS AIR DEFENSE COMMAND UNITED STATES AIR FORCE ENT AIR FORCE BASE, COLORADO ADODI-B 15 AUG 1957 SUBJECT: UFOB Sighting TO: Commander 38th Strategic Reconniassance Squadron 55th Reconniassance Wing Forbes Air Force Base Kansas Request that the officer who made a UFOB sighting over Fort Worth, Texas, on 17 July 1957, Major Lewis D. Chase, A0554018, complete the inclosed Airborne Observer's Data Sheet and return it to this Command. FOR THE COMMANDER: 1 Incl Abn Observer's Data Sheet 1st Ind 38th Strategic Reconnaissance Squadron M (Jet) Forbes Air Force Base, Kansas TO: Commander, Air Defense Command, Ent Air Force Base, Colorado Basic communication complied with. 1 Incl n/c 1 Incl added DD Form 173, DD Form 173-1 Classification Cancelled (or changed to) Auth By ITDPT (UFO) Date 27 Jan 69 GTC 2005-1 year 1-126 Major, USAF Operations Officer DOWNGRADED AT ? YEAR INTERNALS DECLASSIFIED AFTER 12 YEARS DOU LILI BLANKET If inclosure(s) No.102 is (are) withdrawn (or not attached) the classification of the correspondence will be downgraded to VNGLAS in accordance with AFR 205-1.
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