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This NICAP case file compilation (Dan Wilson) collects material on the July 1948 Chiles-Whitted sighting near Montgomery, Alabama. It includes a NICAP note naming Eastern Air Lines Captain Clarence S. Chiles a special adviser, an exhibit list, and Air Force Office of Special Investigations reports dated November 1949. In those reports Chiles describes a lighted, cigar-shaped object with a red exhaust flame traveling at least 500 miles per hour. Atlanta Journal article extracts are also included.
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UNCLASSIFIED ARTICLE ON PAGE ONE. ATLANTA JOURNAL. DATED 24 JULY 1940 Two Eastern Air Lines pilots reported Saturday that their plane Friday night passed a tremendous wingless aircraft that shot 40 feet of flame from the back end and was traveling 500 - 700 miles per hour. Capt. Clarence Shipe Childs and Co-pilot John B. Whited said the object looked like a B-29 fuselage "blown up about 4 times" and was brilliantly lighted with 2 decks of big square windows. The object passed within several hundred feet of the DC-3 and then shot up into the clouds.
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