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MAXW-PBB4-52
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NARA-Maxwell
Page 52 of 1466
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Maxwell Blue Book 4
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MAXW-PBB4-50
MAXW-PBB4-51
MAXW-PBB4-52
MAXW-PBB4-53
MAXW-PBB4-54
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''-"I \ : \ * \ \ . . THIS PAGE IS fer \ CHILES . WHITTJBD r.<UB "0)0(10101" 24 July 1941 . I __ tho morning, the pilot and co-pilot of an Eastern Airlines DC-3. flying at 5,000 feet between Mobile and Montgomery, Alabama sighted a dull rod exhanst oocno 700 foot ahead, a lftstle above and to the right of the air liner. ''"-'' Captain CUrence Chiles, the ''pilot,Immediately turned to his co-pilot* i John Whlttod and remarked: "JLrOok, here comes a new Army jet Job". The object approached U a alight dive, deflected a little to the left and passed the plane oa the right, almost level and parallel to flight path, at a distance of approximately one -half miles. After passing, it pulled up sharply as dlftapneaveA tule> a eieu. (-^. - ''-''^ ^< <''<-</ - The object appeared to be a wingless aircraft, 100 ft. long, cigar- shaped and about twice the diameter of a "B-89". It had no fins or s protruding surfaces. Chiles thought it had a "snout*1 similar to a radar pole on the front and he had the impression there was a cabin with 1 i windows above moeh Ulsi a pilot compartment -" except that It appeared brighter. The Illumination inside the body itself approximated the I '' :+. '' '' - brilliance of a magnesium flare. He saw no occupants nor did Whitted. Visible from the side only, was an intense, fa|rly dark, blue glow running satire length of the ebjeat beneath the fuselage, '' '' I ..., T" H 1 S P A G , E U- N C L " A S S I F '' I ''E D
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