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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…
TRANSLENT AIRCRAFT LOG

OUTBOUND TRANSLENT AIRCRAFT LOG
AIRPLANE & NUMBER	DATE	PILOT	DEPARTED FOR	TRUE AIR SPEED	DEP.	LTA	ARR.	REMARKS
C-47, 7276	7-24	Lt Col Hollingsworth (B/G Randall)	Mitchel	160	0221	0741	0655	Home Stn: San Salvador
B-25, 8850	7-24	Lt Col Groom	Bolling	205	0052	0412	0405	Bolling
C-82, 7785	7-24	1st Lt Fox	MaoDill	180	0142	0357	0405	Greenville, S.C.
INBOUND
AIRPLANE & NUMBER	DATE	PILOT	DEP. FROM	TRUE AIR SPEED	DEP.	ETA	ARR.	REMARKS
C-47, 7276	7-23	Lt Col Hollingsworth (B/G Randall)	Kelly	160	2115	0115	0139, 24th	San Salvador
T-6, 5701	7-23	Clark	Jackson	Unknown 150	2316	0041	0035, 24th
C-82, 7785	7-24	1st Lt Fox	Little Rock	180	No PX 0045	Greenville, S.C.

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