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fe 7 Secs Mr Tom Rush, a pilot with Dixie Air Service, Jackson, Mississippi, and his wife (private pilot), signted an unidentified aerial object > miles eat of Jackson, Mississippi, at 1700 C, 1 Jan 49 while coming in for a landing at the Dixie Airport. Object was first described «s being cigar-shaped with short etubby wings resembling a rocket. (Second renort states there were no wings) Mr Rush specifically stetes in @ signed letter “as the object made its turn, it wes then that I noticed the object didn't have wings.” Object was first thougnt to be a large tow target about 00 feet oo and about 10 feet in diameter at one end and about 4 ft at the trailing end, ‘The tail even fluttered like a trrget but there was nothing towing it and the object moved at greater speed than tow tergets, When the object crossed in front of the plane Rush estimated the speed to be about 200 MPE and atsted that the object crossed sone XX »feet in front of them. After the turn, the object was within 1,200 of the plane, Mr Ruch attempted to point out the object to the oi but the pilot did not understand and apparently @id not see the ab As the object turned to the southwest it accelerated its speed and gut of sight, Object seen for some 10 tele seconds, Color was d blue or Dleck. Speed at first sighting - 200 miles per hour, tater thought to have accelerated to between 400 to 600 mph. Object wae sighted by the above persons who were pes‘engers in a Stinson Civilian aircreft. No photographs were taken since & camera wes not avasla- ble. The Stinson was flying at about 1,500 feet. Investigation of flight schedules of odjacent airfields could throw no light on the incitent.