June 28, 1947 — Montgomery, Al
9:20 p.m. Two pilots and two intelligence officers (Capt. Wilson H. Kayko, Capt. John H. Cantrell, 1st Lt. Theodore Dewey, and Capt. Redman) at Maxwell Field [now Maxwell AFB] in Montgomery, Alabama, see a bright light zigzagging across the sky for 25 minutes. When it is directly overhead, the UFO makes a sharp 90° turn and disappears to the south. [Eberhart]
Record Card:
SIGN Incident 91:
Report:
Balloon Explanation:
Sources:
Ted Bloecher, Report on the UFO Wave of 1947, Case 102, p. III-3;
Brad Sparks, Blue Book Unknown Catalogue, Case 11, p. 18;
Edward Ruppelt, The report on unidentified flying objects, p. 19;
NICAP, “Object Zig-Zags with Bursts of Speed”;