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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. 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…
RE172D
D8A335
50-26
RR UEDC
FM UEAHL 1/CO GUNTER AF BASE MONTGOMERY ALA 042000Z
TO UEDC/CG HO AMC CMA ATTN MCIAX0-3 WRIGHT PATTERSON AFB OHIO
AF GRNC
GAFB-15 PD REURTEL MCIAX0-7-5 PD NO AIRCRAFT ARRIVALS OR DEPARTURES
BETWEEN TWENTY FOUR HUNDRED AND 0500 HOURS TWENTY FOURTH JULY 1948
THIS STATION SGD SULLEND COAB END
CFN GAFB-15 MCIAX0-7-5 0500 1948

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