Aviation observation — Cartersville, Georgia 34°10N / 84°49W — 1948-01-09

On 1948-01-09, an aviation observation was reported at or near Cartersville, Georgia 34°10N / 84°49W, United States. The catalogue lists the aircraft and observers as an Eastern Airlines DC-3. Its time field reads 23:30. A round blue flame-like form passed the aircraft, changed direction and then blinked. Source: Dominique F. Weinstein, Unidentified Aerial Phenomena: Eighty Years of Pilot Sightings (NARCAP TR-04, February 2001), PDF page 10, table row 6. Coordinates explicitly printed in the source catalogue; approximate source claim, not independently verified observation position.