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

USAF / The Black Vault · 57 pages · text by 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. 7 …have been recorded during the incident apparently never existed. Evaluation of the experience must therefore, rest…
  • p. 8 …velocity that Chase told me he had never seen matched in all of his 20 years…
  • p. 21 …I had never seen anything like it before, especially the rapid changes in direction and terrific…
  • p. 30 …Yet this has never happened, so far as the record shows. If the E-T went…
  • p. 31 …The match is not perfect, but McClure never had the oppor tunity to check the accuracy…
  • p. 57 …The true identity of this aircraft was never determined, however, it is assumed that it was…
24. Did the object: (Circle one for each question)
a. Appear to stand still at any time?	Yes	No	Don't know
b. Suddenly speed up and rush away at any time	Yes	No	Don't know
c. Break up into parts or explode?	Yes	No	Don't know
d. Give off smoke?	Yes	No	Don't know
e. Change brightness?	Yes	No	Don't know
f. Change shape?	Yes	No	Don't know
g. Flicker, throb, or pulsate?	Yes	No	Don't know
25. Did the object move behind something at anytime, particularly a cloud? (Circle one) Yes No Don't know. If you answered YES, then tell what it moved behind. ___
26. Did the object move in front of something at anytime, particularly a cloud? (Circle one) Yes No Don't know. If you answered YES, then tell what it moved in front of. ___
27. The edges of the object were: (Circle one) a. Fuzzy or blurred b. Like a bright star c. Sharply outlined d. Don't remember e. Other (Appeared as a Bright Light)
28. Describe in a few words the color of the object. When Passing in Front OF OUR AIRCRAFT IT APPEARED AS A BRIGHT BLUE- WHITE LIGHT. When Above The Object IT APPEARED AS A BRIGHT LIGHT WITH A REDDISH TINGE.
29. IF POSSIBLE, try to guess or estimate what the real size of the object was in its longest dimension. (UNABLE) feet.

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