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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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HEADQUARTERS UNITED STATES AIR FORCE THE INSPECTOR GENERAL OFFICE OF SPECIAL INVESTIGATIONS REPORT OF INVESTIGATION TITLE: SIGHTING OF UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT ON 21 August 1948 at Montgomery, Alabama by Mr. WILLIAM H. PERRY, JR. CHARACTER: SPECIAL INQUIRY - UNCONVENTIONAL AIRCRAFT REFERENCE: AFOSI Letter f85, dated 12 August 1949. SYNOPSIS: Captain C. S. Ormond was interviewed and stated that he sighted an unidentified flying object 20 to 50 miles southwest of Montgomery, Alabama at approximately 0340, 23 July 1948, at an estimated altitude of 5000 feet. This object was flying northeast to southwest at an estimated speed of at least 800 miles per hour. CHILES reported this to Eastern Air Lines Publicity Control Officials on 23 July 1948. DOWNGRADED AT 3 YEAR LATER DECLARATION DISTRIBUTION DO 48 (XInole) 3 Bq 03I (3 Inole) 2 DO 46 (3 Inole) 4 AMC, ATTN: MCIAXO-3 APPROVED EUGENE C. GROPPER Lt. Colonel, USAF Det. Cummings, JF AFCSI FORM 4 23 JULY 1948
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