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

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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.

  • 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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Or the 17th of July the Air Volo recounted

a grimity over many acres the Commander of

a B-47, who repelled the F-1 while flying

at West of Shrewsbury, however

be observed a flashing blue light, but until

not give a definite shape. The object was

seen intimately, off and on, for 14 hours. The

range, while not thinned from three, was to

a height appeared to keep a distance of between 300

400 yards from the B-47. The B-47 Chase

the object over 57 ft. worth when it appeared

but was unable to intercept it, because 143

claimed by the Our craft of its speed and maneuver

Ground radar as B-47 with enforced the proximity of object

The B-47's radar, meanwhile was tracing

the object, until it disappeared in the vicinity

Oklahoma City.

On the radar data, indicated that the encroach

ryden (which presumably followed the B-47 from

maneuver to Oklahoma) had cut the Chase line.

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