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

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# Pilots See Huge "Mystery Aircraft" Over South

ATLANTA. Ga. July 24. (UP) Eastern Airlines pilots reported that their plane last night issued a tremendous, wingless air that shot a 40-foot flame out back end and traveled between and 700 miles an hour.

Capt. Clarence Shipe Chiles and his co-pilot, John B. Whitted, told of seeing the fantastic airship and said it looked like a B-29 fuselage blown up about four times."

ighted and had two decks of big square windows. They claimed. It assert within several hundred feet the pilot's DC-3 and then shot in the clouds, they said.

## Cruising At Time

"We were cruising about 20 miles southwest of Montgomery. Ala. " id Captain Chiles, who was an TC ferry pilot for four years dur- z the war.

We looked out the rightside of the cockpit and saw a tremendous light. The first thing that came to attention was the long stream of flame coming out of the rear end of the plane, or whatever it was. Then I noticed the two rows of square windows—it was a marble thing, all right. We could see any people aboard. It was travel too fast for that.

"The plane passed us on the right. then, as if the pilot had seen us who wanted to avoid us, it zoomed into the same cloud it came out of. A 40-foot red flame shot out its end. A luminous glow like a giant fluorescent light can along the belly of the thing."

Whitted, who said he had seen the Air Force's best let planes not in the secret list, estimated its speed as much faster than he had been before.

## 500 TO 700 $ ^{20} $

"I'd say that when it shot up into the clouds it was going between 300 and 700 miles an hour." Whirted said.

As the aircraft passed them, they said, their comparative small DC-3 battered in the "prop wash, jet wash or rocket-wash." the pilots said. "It sent out tremendous shock waves."

on Itame of its propellant lightning blindness to cockpit the pilots said eastern plane was en-route Atlanta. The myster ship and headed toward Mobile or Orleans, the pilots said.

PLANES IN THE NEWS - NAVY'S CONSTITUTION - Patuxent Nld. July 26. The Navy's largest airplane, the 92-ton Lockheed Constitution, taxis into the Naval Air Station after a 2600-mile flight from Moffett Field, Cal. Average speed for the huge plane was 260 miles per hour; and this was the first time the ship had landed outside California. For other planes in the news, see two photos below. (AP Wirephoto)