January 9, 1948 — Cartersville, GA
11:30 p.m. Eastern Airlines pilot Hugh DuBose, flying a DC-3 aircraft at 3,000 feet altitude near Cartersville, Georgia, observes a circular object with a flat top cross his flight path at the same altitude and then turn earthward. The object is light sky-blue in color and is traveling at an estimated speed of 400 mph. [Eberhart]
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Sources:
Brad Sparks, Blue Books Unknowns Catalogue, Case 71, p. 32;
NICAP, “Object Passes DC-3, Turns”;
