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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…
SUBJECT: Report of Unidentified Flying Object

TO : Commanding General Air Material Command Wright-Patterson Air Force Base Dayton, Ohio ATTN: TSDIN

1. The following report received from the Maxwell Flight Service Center, Maxwell Air Force Base, Montgomery, Alabama is quoted for your information:

"On 24 July 1948, the aircraft dispatcher on duty at Warner cent squash-shaped object with a flaming exhaust had been sighted at C250E. crew, who stated that the object appeared to be wingless and was headed five feet in length. Mr. estimated the object to be about twenty-

At 0315E Eastern Airlines Houston-to-Atlanta flight reported course to avoid collision.

No further information available this Center. "

2. An information copy of this report has been forwarded to the Directorate of Intelligence, United States Air Force.

JAMES A. BRADY Lt. Colonel, USAF Chief, Intelligence Division

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