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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…
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EUA941
EB79
PP UEDC
FMN BEMR 11/NAS OPSRAD JAX FLA 8117192
TO CG AMC WRIGHT PAT AF BASE OHIO
GRNC
ATTENTION MC1AYC-2 REUR 3119172 THREE DEPARTURES GLN AT 0022 R5D DEPARTED FOR NORFOLK VA TAS 210 CMA AT 0033 R5D DEPARTED FOR GUANTANAMO CAY CUDA TAS 185 CMA AT 0421 JRD DEPARTED FOR ANACOSTIA DC TAS 165 NO ARRIVALS
CFN MC1AYC-3 3119172 0022 R5D 210 PPEE R5D 135 PRVQ 165

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