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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.

  • p. 61 …Both pilots, who served as Army fliers during the war; said they had never seen anything…
  • p. 63 …Coast Guard and civilian air officials, as well as plane manufacturers collectively declared they had never…
  • p. 67 …out from the entire rear and were never any wider than the width of the UFO…
  • p. 87 …the object rather than from a nozzle never growing any wider than the width of the…
  • p. 95 …the object rather than from a nozzle never growing any wider than the width of the…
  • p. 130 …course of the interview that he has never sighted any unidentified flying object at any time…
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# TELETYPE MESSAGE AIR SERVICE COMMAND TELETYPE NETWORK

SZH/db

DATE 30 JULY 248

TO: BOOK ENTRANCE - 5126 BELOW

## XCX55X

TELETYPE NO: MOTAXO-7-5

REQUIRED THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION BE FORWARDED TO CG, HEADQUARTERS ATC, ATTENTION ICIAXO-3, TIME OF DEPARTURE OF ALL AIRCRAFT FROM YOUR DATE 3 TWENTY-FOUR HUNDRED AND 0500 THOUSAND MONTHS MONTH JULY 1918, TYPE OF AIRCRAFT, REGISTRATION, TRUE AIR SPEED: TIME OF AIRTVAL OF ALL AIRCRAFT BREAKEN 21:00 AND 0500 BY URS TWENTY-FOURTH JULY 1918, TYPE OF AIRCRAFT, POINT OF STARTING, TRUE AIR SPEED. SIGNED TECHNICAL INTELLIGENCE DIVISION

TO COMMAND OF FICERS OF THE FOLLOWING PASES, ATTENTION OPERATIONS OF VICER

## ALABAMA

BROOKLYN AIR FORCEBASE MOBILE

NAVY CANAL OUTLYING YIELD POLEY

CRAIG A DT FORCE BASE

SKLXA

CENTER AIR FORCE BASE MONTGOMERY

HUNTSVILLE ARSQUAI

HUNTSVILLE

VAXNELL AIR FORCE BASE

FLORIDA

ALBERT WHITED COAST GUARD AIR STATION ST. PATRISBURG

BOLEN AIR FORCE BASE

VALPARAISO

JACKSONVILLE NAGAL AIR STATION JACKSONVILLE G

KEY WEST NAVAL AIR STATION KEY WEST

MODLL AIR FORCE ASSE

TAMPA

ILA-I NATAL AID SAVIION

WALCI 12

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