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MAXW-PBB4-33
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Page 33 of 1466
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Maxwell Blue Book 4
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THIS PACE I:1. THLS PAGe'' IS UNCLASSIFIED s 1 \ \ \ STATEMENT OF JOHM B. I was flying co-pilot for Capt. C. S. Chiles on Trip 576 which left Houston, Texas at S.''i-lO R4 Kaetern Standard Time, Friday night, July 22, I9U8. At O2U5 EST, we sighted a strange ,object coding toward us at a high rate of speed. We were at 5000 feet and our position was 25 miles southwest of Montgomery, Ala. The^trange object had a stream of red fire coming from its tail. I assumed that it was a jet type airplane of the Arrrjy or Navy but as it came nearer I could see that it was much larger than any Army or Navy jet that I have ever seen or re&d about. It passed us on, the right side of our DC-3^ I estimate its speed in ithe neighborhood of 700 MPH but this is purely a rough estimate. We, werqdolding a compass heading of 50 degrees and the object passed us going in the opposite (direction. To me, the object seemed about a half-mile from us, flying straight and level. I ranid could see no wings supporting the object. The object was cigar shaped and seemed to be about a hundred feet in length. The fuselage appeared to be about three times the circumference of a B-29 fuselage. It had two rows of windows, an upper and a lower. The windows were very large and seemed square. They werei white with , light which seemed to be caused by some type of combustion. I estimate that we watched the object at least 5 seconds and not more than 10 seconds. We h< ard no noifc.e cor did we feel any turbulence from the object. It seemed to be at about 5500 feet. r I afiiked Capt. Chiles what we had just seen and he said that he didn''t knowv^Capt Chiles then contacted the company radio operator at Columbus, Ga., and aksed him to contact LawsonFld at Ft Becming, Ga., and find out if the Army h&d any jet 1 or experimental planes in the vicinity. Tfhe company operator called us a few minutes later and stated t:at'' Lawson Field reported that they had no ulanes flying in our area. Capt -Chiles then reported back to the ''company radio operator slaying1 that 1 a strange aircraft just passed us and it looked lie some type of rocket ship* Vfe passed up Columbus because of ground fog and continued on to Atlanta. T H I S I S u N C L A S S I F t E D " . ( /. .> m ,;: ^> :b'' UNCLASSIFIED ''1 . '' I L< d Vs t ^ ,*^
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