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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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  • p. 51 …waves, nor was there any wash or mechanical disturbance when the object passed. No sound was…
  • p. 52 …IT ZOOMED INTO THE CLOUDS, ITS ACT WASH ROCKING OUR DC-3.* ESTIMATED THE UFO-S…
  • p. 56 …the aircraft passed them, they said, their DC-3 fluttered in the "prop-wash, jet-wash…
  • p. 59 …AND ZOOMED INTO THE CLOUDS, ITS PROP WASH OR JET WASH ROCKING OUR D.C.3…
  • p. 60 …3 battered in the "prop wash, jet wash or rocket-wash." the pilots said. "It sent…
  • p. 61 …The Force appealed at Wash- ington suggested a possibility that the strange craft might have been…
  • p. 63 …Hundreds of telephone calls flooded the Civil Aeronautics Administration office in Yakima, Wash., today from persons…
  • p. 73 …waves, nor was there any wash on peristaltic latusference during the object motion. No sound was…
  • p. 82 …There was no prop wash or rough air felt as it passed. After talking to the…
  • p. 87 …waves, nor was there any wash or mechanical disturbance when the object passed. No sound was…
  • p. 95 …waves, nor was there any wash or mechanical disturbance when the object passed. No sound was…
452. 1 AXA2B

SUBJECT: Unconventional Aircraft

TO: Commanding General Wright-Patterson Air Force Base Dayton, Ohio ATTN: M. CI

1. Reference is made to letter, Intelligence Division, CSGID 452.1, 25 March 1948, subject as above and to Control No. A-1917.

2. Attached WD AGO Form 341, Agent Report, same subject and file as above, dated 11 October 1948, forwarded for your information and any action necessary.

FOR THE COMMANDING GENERAL:

1 Incl As stated

MUSTIS L. POLAND Colonel, GSC AC of S, G-2

DOWNGRADED AT 8 YEAR INTERVALS.

DECLASSIFIED AFTER 12 WEEKS.

DOD DUR 5200.10

1st Ind

MCLAZD-3/RHS/3w

Eq.AMC Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio

NOV 51948

TO: Commanding General, Headquarters Fourth Army, Fort Sam Houston, Texas

1. The inclusion mentioned in paragraph 2 of basic communication has been withdrawn for necessary action by this Headquarters.

2. Request for further investigation is being initiated in accord- ance with authority contained in Department of the Army letter dated 25 March 1948, subject, "Unconventional Aircraft".

FOR THE COMMANDING GENERAL

1/2

UNCLASSIFIED Colnei, USA Chief, Intelligence Department

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