Good evening. First I just want to say..I know what I saw. I was a pilot for Eastern Air Lines, flew DC-3s for years, had over eight thousand hours in the air by that point. I served in the Army Air Force during the war. I'm telling you this because I want you to understand, I know aircraft. I know what moves through the sky and what doesn't. And what I saw on July 24th, 1948 was not any aircraft built by human hands. My co-pilot Jack Whitney was right there with me. We both saw it. We both drew pictures of it afterward that matched. Two experienced pilots, same story, same details. That's not imagination. That's not a weather balloon. That's something real.
We were flying from Houston to Atlanta that night. Routine domestic flight, twenty passengers on board, nineteen of them asleep. It was around 2:45 in the morning, maybe twenty miles southwest of Montgomery. Clear night, moon was bright, scattered clouds up high. I remember I'd burned my tongue on coffee earlier that evening, stupid thing to remember, but I was thinking about it when Jack pointed something out. I saw a dull red glow above us, maybe half a mile out, coming in from our right. My first thought was some new Army jet that hadn't been reported in our corridor. I said to Jack, hey, look, here comes a new Army jet job. But it was closing on us fast. Too fast. And the shape was wrong.
It came at us in a matter of seconds. I'm not exaggerating when I say this thing was doing speeds I'd never seen anything achieve. No propeller aircraft moves like that. No jet I knew of moved like that. And as it got closer, I could see it had no wings. No tail section. Nothing. The thing was glowing. Lit up like burning magnesium. magnesium is incredibly bright - Dennis' That's the only way I can describe it. Two rows of what looked like windows running along the side, square-shaped, pouring out this brilliant white light. And underneath, this blue glow running from the nose all the way back. The nose was pointed, almost like a torpedo. And out the back, maybe fifty feet of orange-red flame, like exhaust but brighter than any exhaust I'd ever seen.
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