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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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14. Co-Pilot attention was drawn to the object to remark. His description of the object and its sensu er was very similar to that of "nilde" except that he did not observe a cockpit in front nor that he were any radar "snout". Lie dr wing and de-scripti n nkrr also indicated smaller windows on openings on the side. He saw the "entrance" as a pencil white flame which came from the entire rear of the object rather than from a very narrow growing any wider than the width of the object itself, although no noticed the in-cre self length of the flame as the object "rolled up". He stated it appear just last in if the length of the ship itself or approximately 56 ft.

3. Both rifles struck the night was clear with a bright moon and bright cloud over 6,000 ft. Both of the objects to be in sight approximately 10 to 15 sec. s.

R. A. LLIE: LYNS

K. J. US.

AL/ 310

B128 38

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