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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.

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  • 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…
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July 17-Amarillo, Texas-11:45pm=7 red, whirling LIGHTS with slow; irregular paths, reversing, hovering. 5 went N to S,2 went S to N. Passed over at regular intervals, except 2 that came together. Clear.

July 17=50miles E.of El Paso, Tex-3:30am(MST)-Amer. Airlines Flight #665 almost collides with huge.green UFO!(Shot EJ(Fireballs mounting).

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