July 26, 1948 — Chamblee, GA
8:45 p.m. A group of 5–15 Georgia School of Technology students outdoors at their housing project in Chamblee, Georgia, see a green light with a silver tail about the size of a football in steady flight to the southeast, slowly descending as if for a landing, completely silent. At 9:00 p.m., Doyle L. Avery, an Atlanta Naval Air Base tower observer, sees a blue-white object in horizontal level flight at high altitude travel from northeast to southeast in a few seconds, then gain altitude and suddenly turn to the south, completely noiseless. Independent witnesses include the city editor of the Atlanta Chronicle newspaper and nine others. [Eberhart]
SIGN Incident 165 Checklist:
Agent Report:
Sources:
“Mysterious ‘Ball of Fire’ Trailing Tail of Flame Sighted over Atlanta,” Atlanta (Ga.) Constitution, July 27, 1948, pp. 1, 4;
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-atlanta-constitution-theatlantacon/128370747/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-atlanta-constitution-theatlantacon/128370771/
NICAP, “Silent Object Makes Sudden Turn”;
Brad Sparks, Blue Books Unknowns Catalogue, Case 104, p. 36;
[PURSUE release, pp. 164–165;]
https://www.war.gov/medialink/ufo/release_1/38_143685_box7_incident_summaries_101-172.pdf
[PURSUE release, pp. 189–190;]
