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

The Black Vault · 162 pages · text by OCR

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.

  • p. 61 …Both pilots, who served as Army fliers during the war; said they had never seen anything…
  • p. 63 …Coast Guard and civilian air officials, as well as plane manufacturers collectively declared they had never…
  • p. 67 …out from the entire rear and were never any wider than the width of the UFO…
  • p. 87 …the object rather than from a nozzle never growing any wider than the width of the…
  • p. 95 …the object rather than from a nozzle never growing any wider than the width of the…
  • p. 130 …course of the interview that he has never sighted any unidentified flying object at any time…
ATTN: 110.

21. NO. ___

12:30

Incident /144

DATE: 02 H PDT

THE OF 1891.27 0245

11. 10 Cirar

100' Long - Diam. twice "B-29"

S. (toward Noble)

NO. 1 IN GROUP 1

DAY. 1970 24 July 1948

:00:00

PHYLOGY 2

LOCATION 20 Ml. S of Montgomery, Ala.

SOURCE Airline Pilots

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