24 July 1948 02:45
Montgomery, Alabama, USA
EAL incident. Explanation: Meteor.
Wingless torpedo 100 feet long, shooting flames, fuselage 3x diameter of B-29, two rows of square windows, no noise, banked into broken clouds 6000 feet altitude, moving rapidly to the 700 mph. Duration: 5-10 seconds. An object was observed. It buzzed a witness.One red torpedo-shaped object, about 150 feet across, was observed in cloudy weather by three experienced male witnesses in-flight for 12 seconds (Chiles). No sound was heard.
Hynek rating: CE1: Close Encounters of the First Kind
Vallee rating: MA1: A UFO has been observed which travels in a discontinuous trajectory. i.e. vertical drops, maneuvers or loops.
Vallee reliability rating: 344: Reliable source, firsthand; site visit by a skilled analyst; no natural explanation possible, given the evidence.
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