Press Compilation: Flying Disk Sightings in Yakima, Washington and Montgomery, Alabama

This document consists of a Temporary ATIC Form 399 and two attached newspaper clippings from July 1948. The ATIC form documents a sighting that occurred on July 24, 1948, at 0245 in Altoona, Pennsylvania. The observer reported a single object with a 'swishing' sound and a 'SE' flight path, observed for 8-10 seconds. The official conclusion recorded on the form is 'Meteor'. The attached press clippings, dated July 25, 1948, describe two other significant UAP sightings. The first occurred in Yakima, Washington, where two Civil Aeronautics Administration (C.A.A.) employees, Don Hunt and George Robinson, observed a 'silvery, moon-sized flying blob' that they ruled out as being a planet, weather balloon, or aircraft. The second report details a sighting near Montgomery, Alabama, by Eastern Air Line pilots Captain C.S. Chiles and Co-Pilot John Whitted, who described a 'huge, flame-shooting sky monster' that was 'a wingless affair four times the circumference of a B-29 fuselage.' Another Eastern Air Line pilot, Captain Lou Feldvary, and his co-pilot, A.J. Egger, reported seeing a rocket-like trail in the sky while flying near New York. The document serves as a compilation of contemporary reports and the military's initial classification of the Altoona event.