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

The Black Vault · 162 pages · text by 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.

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  • p. 69 …the Montgomery, Alabama, incident could support a gross weight of approximately 12,000 pounds at an…
  • p. 72 …of the aircraft for any particu lar gross weight. If this type of unidentified aerial object…
  • p. 89 …range of the aircraft for any particular gross weight. If this type of unidentified serial object…
  • p. 90 …the Montgomery, Alabama, incident could support a gross weight of approximately 12,000 pounds at an…
People all over the country seeing objects.

Mrs. Noah Atkinson of Brookhaven, Georgia saw object.

C. M. Bowles, an Exposition Killa painter who lives near airport also saw object in past.

DOWNGRADED AT 3 YEAR IMPROVAL 31

DECLASSIFIED AFTER 12 YEARS.

DOD DIR 5200.10

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