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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 INFORMATION REPORT Tech Intellige Intellige Department Wright-Patterson AFB, Dayton,Ohio ## rIED b. To exclude irrelevant factors in a systematic manner, the information presented in Exhibit "11" is presented in the order of occurrence and significance. ## (1) Incident #1 a. Object was sighted 24 July 1948 between O140 and O150 EST from the ground at Robins Air Force Base, Macon, Georgia. b. Object was again sighted from an altitude of 5,000 feet by Coiles and Whitted, while flying a 10-3 some 20 miles south of Kontgomery, Alabam. The time of the sighting was 24 July 1948 at approximately 0245 EST. c. Both the Massey sighting and that of Chiles and Whitted describe the object as "cigar" or "cylindrical" in shape. (McKelvie perceived only the glow emitted by it) d. All observers agree that the object was traveling in a general southerly heading and that it was trafled by a flame varying in color and that it behaved like a normal craft insofar as disappearing from the line of sight was concerned. NOTE: It is a known fact that atmospheric conditions such as varying degrees of humidity and incidence of light refraction often influence the color of the light observed. This would serve to explain why many observers conflict in their descriptions as to color of light displayed by the object or its trail. o. Four witnesses to this sighting are involved; three are trained observers. In no instance were there any indications of subversive or ulterior influences involved. f. Both the Massey account and that of Chiles. Pitted and McKelvie were officially made within a period of time that would preclude any chance of impressions being gained from radio or newspaper reports. ## (2) Incident #2 ## 4. Object #2 was observed by Feldvary, Manufield and Kingsley at 0230 hours 24 July 1948, while airborne, between Blackstone, Virginia, and Greensboro, North Carolina. This sighting is considered separately since the descriptions of speed as "meteoric" or "terrific", the manner of travel described as an arc or horizontal, and the fact that it "faded like a meteor" seem to indicate that the object seen was not the one observed in Incident 1. ## (3) Incident #3 This object was observed between 2100 and 2300 hours 26th July 1948 at Chamblee, and Augusta, Georgia, by observers Avery, Russell, Boll, Bottle, Atkinson, Mrs. Skinner, Proveau and Gall. This object was not thought to be a meteor in that it maneuvered. The glow was described as varied in color but predominantly brilliant blue-white. The course was described as generally "southern".
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