Documents / Document

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.

Open the PDF at page 141 Original source ↗

“Nevers”6 pages

  • 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…
TITLE: NIGHTTING OF UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT; CHARACTER: SPECIAL IFQUERY UNCONVENTIONAL AIRCRAFT; FILE NO: 24-135; DATE: 2 November 1949

# INNOTURES

The following inclosures are attached to each copy of report:

Incl. 1. Exhibit "A" - Extracted Article from Page 1, Atlanta Journal, Atlanta, Georgia, dated 24 July 1943.

Incl. 2. Exhibit "3" - Extracted Article from Page 1, Atlanta Journal, Atlanta, Georgia, dated 25 July 1948.

Incl. 3. Exhibit "G" - Extracted Article From Page 1, Atlanta Journal, Atlanta, Georgia, dated 26 July 1948.

ENGRADED AT 3 YEAR INTERVALS: DECLASSIFIED AFTER 12 YEARS. DOD DAR 6200.10

Cited by

Cases discussed

About this file

Document, cited by the archive. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. The text was read from the page images by an OCR model; expect the odd misread word. 162 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.