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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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30. Do you think you can estimate the speed of the object? (Circle one) Yes No If you answered YES, then what speed would you estimate? Extremely Slow To 700 MPH. 31. Do you think you can estimate how far away from you the object was? (Circle one) Yes No If you answered YES, then how far asay would you say it was? 11,000 feet. 32. Try to estimate the number of degrees the object was from true North (Azimuth). 32.1 When it first appeared: 240 degrees. 32.2 When it disappeared: 360 degrees. 33. If there was more than one object, then how many were there? ___2 Draw a picture of how they were arranged, and put an arrow to show the direction that they were traveling. ( SEE NARRATIVE ) ## 34. How large did the object or objects appear as compared with one of the following objects held in the hand and at arm's length? (Circle one) a. Head of a pin b. Pea c. Dime d. Nickel 35. Circle one of the following to indicate how certain you are of your answer to Question 34. a. Certain b. Fairly certain c. Not very sure d. Uncertain
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