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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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PRECEDENCE TYPE MSG (Check) ACCOUNTING SYMBOL ORIG. OR REFERS TO CLASSIFICATION OF REFERENCE ACTION BOOK MULTI SINGLE INFO AF X FROM: COMSTRATRECONWG 55 FORBES AFB KANS TO: CINCSAC OFFUTT AFB NEBR COMAF 8 WESTOVER AFB MASS 1. ZIPPO M-12 AMPLIFY CIRVIS REPORT SENT BY ADC SITE UTAH 2. NA/NA/55SRW 3. UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT. 4. LACY 17 5. 1010Z 17 JUL 57 TO 1140Z 17 JUL 57. 6. APPROXIMATELY 3200N and 91-30W ON A TRACK PLANNED FROM MERIDIAN, MISS. TO WACO, TEX. 7. FIRST SIGHTED AT APPROX 32-OON AND 91-28W. 8. ECM RECONNAISSANCE OPERATOR #NR 2 OF LACY 17, RB-47H AIRCRAFT, INTERCEPTED AT APPROXIMATELY MERIDIAN, MISSISSIPPI, A SIGNAL WITH THE FOLLOWING CHARACTERISITCS: FREQUENCY 2995 MC TO 3000 MC; PULSE WIDTH OF 2.0 MICRO-SECONDS; PULSE REPETITION FREQUENCY OF 600 CPS; SWEEP DATE OF 4RPM; VERTICAL POLARITY. SIGNAL MOVED RAPIDLY UP THE 'D/F SYMBOL 55DOI/rkg TYPED NAME AND TITLE (Signature, if required) ELWIN T. PIWETZ, Wg Intel Officer PHONE 707 SECURITY CLASSIFICATION UNCLASSIFIED
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