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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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## 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 Captqin 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.
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