Documents / Document
This NICAP extract, compiled by Dan Wilson and undated, collects the statements of Eastern Air Lines pilot Capt. Clarence S. Chiles and co-pilot John B. Whitted on Trip 576, together with an Air Force check-list for unidentified flying objects. The pilots describe a wingless, cigar-shaped object about 100 feet long that passed their DC-3 near Montgomery, Alabama, at 2:45 AM in July 1948. They report two rows of lit windows and a flame exhaust. The object made no sound and pulled up into clouds.
Read from the scan by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word.
## SECRET
STATEMENT OF CAPTAIN CLARENCE S. CHILES
Atlanta, Ga.
Aug 3, 1945
U_{N}L
Mr. S. L. Shannon Eastern Air Lines Miami, Fla.
The following is a report of an unidentified aircraft which was sighted by John Whitted and me, as we were twenty miles southwest of Montgomery, Ala. July 24, 1945, as we were on Eastern's trip 576.
At 2:45 A.M. we were cruising at 5,000 feet when there came, what looked like a Jet type of aircraft to our right and slightly above meeting us. It was a clear moonlight night with the visibility excellent; therefore, we were able to view the ship as it passed for a period of around ten seconds. It was clear there were no wings present, that it was powered by some jet or other type of power shooting flames from the rear some fifty feet. There were two rows of windows, which indicated an upper and lower deck, from inside these windows a very bright light was glowing. Underneath the ship there was a blue glow of light.
After it passed it pulled up into some light broken clouds and was lost from view. There was no prop wash or rough air felt as it passed.
After talking to the only passenger snake at the time, he may only the trail of fire as it passed and pulled into the clouds. I called the company at Columbus and asked if there was any reported jet army craft and requested if the AFC had any aircraft under control. I was told that no such craft was reported by either source.
/ / C. S. Chiles
C. S. Oniles
Ogut E. A. L.
DOWNGRADED AT 3 YEAR INTERVALS;
DECLASSIFIED AFTER 12 YEARS
DOD DLR 5250.10 Document, cited by the archive. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 5 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.