Meridian, Mississippi
One of the very last cases reported to Bluebook that was labeled as unidentified
occurred in Meridian, Mississippi. Philip Lanning was driving south of town, on the
evening of July 10, 1967, when his car coasted to a stop and the radio faded. Lanning
got out and started to look at the car engine, when an enormous object flew over his head
about 3 hundred feet in the air. The object was silent and moving to the east.
Lanning thought the object was about the crash.
Just before the object reached a group of nearby trees, it tilted upward, turned
right and then accelerated at great speed straight up into the low-flying clouds.
The object was described as being 'like a cymbal on a drum set and was a dirty
metallic gray in colour on the underside'. He saw no portholes or hatches and said
that it appeared to the size of house.
Lanning wasn't sure who would be interested in the report, but he felt that it should
be sent to someone in the US Government, so he forwarded it to a friend in Navel Intelligence.
The Air Force eventually received it and began an investigation.
They were impressed with Lanning as a witness as he was a former military officer
who had received a great deal of training. After , extensive research and interviews
the Air Force were forced to label this sighting as unidentified. This was one of the
very last reports in Bluebook to recieve that tag.
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