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

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# Pilots Report Flaming, Wingless Rocket Ship

ATLANTA, July 24.—(AP)—A strange wingless plane shooting red flame "like a Buck Rogers rocket ship" was described today by two Eastern Airline pilots. They called it a double-decked speedster making 500 to 700 miles per hour.

The pilot, Capt. C. S. Chiles and Co-Pilot J. B. Whitted, said they were flying the Houston-Atlanta-Boston run when they sighted the ship southwest of Montgomery, Ala., about 2:45 a.m. (CST).

"It was in line almost with our flight," Chiles said. "We veered off to the left and this object turned to its left. When it came near to us, its fuselage appeared to be about 100 feet in length and about four times the circumference of a B-29 fuselage.

"It had two rows of windows. Out of the rear of the ship red flames were shooting 25 to 50 feet. There was a blue glow beneath the fuselage. The ship appeared to be doing between 500 to 700 miles an hour, heading toward New Orleans.

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"WHEN IT GOT alongside of us, it pulled up with a tremendous burst of flame out of the rear. Then the ship disappeared into the broken clouds. The ship had no wings. It seemed to have an upper deck and a lower deck and was fully lighted inside. We saw no occupants."

Montgomery, Maxwell and Dannelly Army fields said they knew nothing about the report. The Civil Aeronautics Administration also said it had no information about the ship. The Air Force in Washington also could shed no light on the craft.

KENNETH SQUARE. Pa. July 24. A mystery plane.

reported sighted over Montgomery, Ala., by two Eastern Airline pilots, was described by a Columbus, O., man today as. "a flash of cherry red fire."

Clarence L. McKelvie, assistant managing editor of the American Education Press, said he was the only passenger on the Eastern Airlines Houston-to-Boston plane not asleep when the phantom craft was sighted. "I saw no shape or form," McKelvie said.