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Project Blue Book case file, Chiles-Whitted (PDF)

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This Project Blue Book case file, released through The Black Vault, collects records on the 24 July 1948 sighting by two Eastern Airlines pilots of a wingless object about 20 miles southwest of Montgomery, Alabama. It contains teletype replies from military bases reporting no aircraft movements, a 1948 Project Sign special investigation report with an interview of a Robins Air Force Base witness, and a December 1948 intelligence report. It also includes newspaper extracts, a Harvard College Observatory letter and Hynek's Project Grudge evaluation index.

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  • p. 51 …waves, nor was there any wash or mechanical disturbance when the object passed. No sound was…
  • p. 52 …IT ZOOMED INTO THE CLOUDS, ITS ACT WASH ROCKING OUR DC-3.* ESTIMATED THE UFO-S…
  • p. 56 …the aircraft passed them, they said, their DC-3 fluttered in the "prop-wash, jet-wash…
  • p. 59 …AND ZOOMED INTO THE CLOUDS, ITS PROP WASH OR JET WASH ROCKING OUR D.C.3…
  • p. 60 …3 battered in the "prop wash, jet wash or rocket-wash." the pilots said. "It sent…
  • p. 61 …The Force appealed at Wash- ington suggested a possibility that the strange craft might have been…
  • p. 63 …Hundreds of telephone calls flooded the Civil Aeronautics Administration office in Yakima, Wash., today from persons…
  • p. 73 …waves, nor was there any wash on peristaltic latusference during the object motion. No sound was…
  • p. 82 …There was no prop wash or rough air felt as it passed. After talking to the…
  • p. 87 …waves, nor was there any wash or mechanical disturbance when the object passed. No sound was…
  • p. 95 …waves, nor was there any wash or mechanical disturbance when the object passed. No sound was…
CHECK-LIST - UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS

1. Date 24 July 1948

Incident # 1111

2. Time 0245

3. Location 20 miles south of Montgomery, Ala.

4. Name of observer Pilot

5. Occupation of observer Pilot and Co-pilot (EAL) Mr.

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 MPH (See Atlanta Constitution-25 July 48)

13. Diroction of flight southwest toward Mobile and New Orleans

14. Tactics Pulled up sharply with tremendous burst of flame (Atlanta Constitution-25 July 43)

15. Sound none

16. Sizo 100 ft long and about twice the diameter of a "B-29"

17. Color N/S

18. Shapo Cigar-shaped

19. Odor detected N/S

20. Apparent construction N/5

21. Exhaust trails red-orange flame with blue fluorescent glow running underneath the object

22. Weather conditions at 6,000 ft full moon, clear with broken cloud coverage of 4/10

25. Effect on clouds N/5 - pulled up into one.

21. Sketches or photographs 2 sketches

25. Manner of disappearance Disappeared into a cloud

26. Remarks: See attached statements.

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