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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.
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CHECK-LIST - UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS
1. Date 24 July 1948
Incident # 144
2. Time 0245
3. Location 20 miles south of Montgomery, Ala.
$ I_{4}^{\circ} $ . Name of observer Pilot Clarence Shipe Chiles & Co-pilot John B. Whitted & Mr. McKelvie
5. Occupation of observer Pilot and Co-pilot (EAL) Mr. McKelvie's occupation
6. Address of observer Atlanta Office of EAL
7. Place of observation air - 20 miles south of Montgomery, Ala.
8. Number of objects 1
9. Distance of object from observer 700 ft
10. Time in sight 10 to 15 seconds
11. Altitude 5,000 ft
12. Speed 500 to 700 KPH (See Atlanta Constitution - 25 July 48)
15. Direction of flight southwest toward Mobile and New Orleans
14. Tactics Pulled up sharply with tremendous burst of flame (Atlanta Constitution - 25 July 48)
15. Sound none
16. Size 100 ft long and about twice the diameter of a "B-29"
17. Color N/S
18. Shape Cigar-shaped
19. Odor dotogad | N/S
20. apparent construction N/S
21. Exhaust trails red-orange flame with blue fluorescent glow running underneath the object
22. Weather conditions full moon, clear with broken cloud coverage of 4/10 at 6,000 ft
23. Effect on clouds N/S - pulled up into one.
Sketchos or photographs 2 sketches
25. Harmor of disappearance Disappeared into a cloud
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