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This Air Intelligence Information Report was issued by the Technical Intelligence Division at Wright-Patterson AFB under Project SIGN and dated 20 December 1948. It analyzes reports of unidentified flying objects seen on 24 and 26 July 1948 across Alabama, Georgia and Virginia, among them the cigar-shaped object that Eastern Airlines pilots Chiles and Whitted saw near Montgomery. The report treats some of the sightings as meteors. It concludes the Chiles-Whitted object was not a meteor and remains unidentified as to origin, construction and power source.
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## AIR-N GENCE INFORMATION F ORT ## Tec Intelligence Div Intelligence Department 102-122-79 Wright-Patterson AFB, Dayton,Ohio ## A1 ORIGIN: In compliance with verbal instructions from Maj. General Cabell, Director of Intelligence, AFOI, this Hq proceeded to investigate the report concerning the sighting of an unidentified serial object in the vicinity of Montgomery, Alabama, occurring 24 July 1948 between the hours of 0140 and 0245 EDT. ## B. ACTION INITIATED: 1. On 25 July 1945, Major P. A. Llewellyn, Project "SIGN" Officer, Mr. A. Department, Technical Assistant to Col Clingerman, Mr. A. C. Loedding, Assistant Deputy for Technical Analysis Division, and Capt R. J. Grossocke, Security Officer, proceeded to Atlanta, Georgia, where they interviewed Capt C. S. Chiles and Mr. John B. Whitted, EAL pilots, and obtained their signed statements as to the anomaly observed. Copies of these statements together with drawings executed by Chiles and Whitted are appended as Exhibit "A". On 31 July 1948, Maj Llewellyn personally interviewed Mr. C. C. McKelvie, the sole passenger awake during the hour of 0140 and 0245 EST, as to what he saw while a passenger board the DC-3 piloted by Chiles and Whitted. A statement is attached as Exhibit "B". 2. Following the above interrogations; requests were disseminated to Hq USAP, Naval and commercial airlines by priority teletypes 2 Aug 1948 requesting data on aircraft movements in the general vicinity of Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Georgia, South Carolina, Tennessee and North Carolina. Charts of these aircraft movements are submitted as Exhibit "C". 3. In compliance with Hq ANC letter dated 6 July 1948, the Sixth Office of Special Investigations (10) District undertook an investigation pertaining to an aerial phenomena reportedly seen by various people within the 6th OSI District. A complete report of the various sightings, pages 1-16 is appended hereto as Exhibit "2". Further reports and statements as to reliability are also appended. 4. After the statements were received, a complete analysis as to the date and time, geographical location, and description of the object was charted. The completely assembled data, i.e., statements of witnesses, reliability statements, airline schedules and the collated data chart were forwarded to the various technical agencies to effect an evaluation and interpretation of the technological factors involved. ## C. FACTUAL DATA: 1. The collated data chart (Exhibit "H") was drawn up to effect a trend or pattern in regard to the reported sightings. a. From this chart it is evident that three or possibly four separate incidents were involved: (1) hat pertaining to sightings by Massey, Chiles, Whitted and McKelvie (2) That of Felivary, Mansfield and Kingsley (3) That of Avery, Russell, Measii, Skinner and Proveau (4) That of Gall, Shaw, Mr. & Mrs. Jebring, Mrs. Hill and Mrs. Renfrow
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