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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.
“Office of Special Investigations”1 page
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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