Documents / Document
This Project Blue Book case file, digitized by the Internet Archive, covers Incident 144: two Eastern Airlines pilots reported that a wingless, cigar-shaped object with a flaming exhaust passed their DC-3 about 20 miles southwest of Montgomery, Alabama, on 24 July 1948. The file includes an OSI interview with a Robins Air Force Base employee who saw a similar object, negative aircraft traffic reports from many bases, and later correspondence. A December 1948 intelligence report found fairly consistent descriptions across four related sightings.
“The Advance”3 pages
Read from the scan by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word.
## Capt. Clarence S. Chiles, Eastern Air Lines Pilot, Is Special Adviser Although the detailed biography of Captain Chiles was not received in time for use in this issue, he will be recognized as one who played an important part in the UFO story in 1948. It was in July of 1948 that Captain Chiles and the then 1st Officer John B. Whitted encountered a huge projectile-shaped device along the airway near Montgomery, Alabama. Chiles and Whitted both agreed that it was about 100 feet in length, twice the diameter of a B-29. Both men saw two rows of windows or ports through which a blue fluorescent glow was visible. The UFO, which they described as a machine traveling at 500 miles per hour or faster, veered sharply as it neared them and both reported they could feel the UFO's backwash rock their DC-3 as the strange object climbed steeply away. Although Captain Chiles has not reported any UFO encounter since that date, he has maintained his interest in the saucer subject. As a veteran pilot who has had an extremely close range observation of a saucer, Chiles is well equipped to examine and evaluate authentic sighting reports for NICAP.
Document, cited by the archive. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 161 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.