Montgomery, AlabamaJune 1949

On June 18, 1949, a woman driving near Montgomery, Alabama spotted a cluster of flying objects in the sky. She saw 20 to 25 saucer-shaped objects that looked about the size of a dinner plate. The objects were aluminum-colored and appeared to move slower than an airplane. She watched them for about five minutes as they moved in and out of a large thunderhead cloud formation near Gunter Air Force Base, roughly two miles away.

The woman was the wife of an Air Force officer stationed at Gunter AFB. She had served in the Air Force herself for over seven years and was familiar with all types of aircraft. She told her husband about the sighting when she got home but kept quiet otherwise, fearing she would be ridiculed. She believed no one else had witnessed the objects.

Air Force investigators checked weather records from Maxwell AFB for June 18, 1949. At 1700 hours (5 p.m.), when the sighting occurred, weather observers reported scattered clouds at 15,000 to 18,000 feet, visibility of ten miles, and calm to light winds. Four weather balloons had been released from Maxwell that day, but none showed anything unusual. The investigators noted that the witness appeared to be a normal, mature, and credible person.

The Air Force's official evaluation of this case was listed as "unknown." The file does not contain any further analysis or conclusion about what the woman observed.

The full case file is reproduced below as held by the National Archives, consisting of 7 pages.