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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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RC106
DA196
CC 16
RR ULEDC
FH UE RC 16/DASE OPNS ECLIN AFD TLA CRFT
TO ULEDC/TECHNICAL INTELLIGENCE DIV ARC WRIGHT PATT AFD OHIO
RESTRICTED
34 CITE HCIAKO-7-5 FOLLOWING INFO SUBMITTED AF 4791 D36 PILOT READ
ECLIN AFD TO HIAHI DEPPT 2011 OCT 23RD JULY 40 AIVD 0115 CST MATH JULY
40 TRUE 410 SPEED 265 THIS VALIDLY AIRCRAFT DIV IDTGD FROM THIS DATE ONLY THIS PRIOR END

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