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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 TITLE: SIGHTING OF UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT; CHARACTER: SPECIAL INQUIRY UNCONVENTIONAL AIRCRAFT; FILE NO: 24-188; DATE: 2 November 1949 Occupation 1st Pilot - Eastern Air Lines. Place of business Atlanta Office - Eastern Air Lines. Pertinent hobbies Photography. Ability to determine Excellent Reliability of observer During the war, observer was a Lt. Col. Pilot, USAF, in a command capacity on the Ascension Islands, with vast experience in judging and identifying aircraft. Witnesses JOHN B. VITTED, formerly with Eastern Air Lines. Address unknown. G. L. NOLDEVIE, Columbus, Ohio Natal Captain CHILES stated during the course of the interview that he has never sighted any unidentified flying object at any time other than at 0340, 23 July 1948.
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