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

The Black Vault · 162 pages · text by GLM-OCR

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. 60 …The Navy's largest airplane, the 92-ton Lockheed Constitution, taxis into the Naval Air Station…
  • p. 125 …CIAXO-6-14 REQUEST THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION CONCERNING THE FLIGHT OF THE LOCKHEED CONSTITUTION, NUMBER ONE…

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RD67

DSA146

RR UEDC

FN UES 527/CG MOAMA DROOKLEY AFB ALA 921233Z

TO CG AHC VRIGHT PAT AFB DAYTON OHIO

AF GRNC

MOE0-8-3 ATTN MCIAXO-3 PD FOLLOWING INFORMATION CORRECTS TELETYPE

NOEO-8-1 DATED 2 AUGUST 1948 CLN B-25 AIRCRAFT ARRIVED BROOKLEY 2012

CST FROM LANGLEY AFB VA CMA TRUE AIR SPEED 260 CLN 9-26 AIRCRAFT

DEPARTED BROMKLEY 0122 CST FOR KELLY AFB TEXAS

CMA TRUE AIR SPEED 260 PD SGD BASE EXEC OFFICER

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