Archive / search
Official reports, hearing transcripts, case files and releases: the paper behind the cases. 2,872 documents, 2,610 mirrored with their text, 53,529 pages indexed, so a search reads inside them and lands on the page.
New in the library The PURSUE files The Department of War's UAP release, mirrored in full: the videos, recordings and images, each beside its case file.Documents3 records
This Air Intelligence Information Report was issued by the Technical Intelligence Division at Wright-Patterson AFB under Project SIGN and dated 20 December 1948. It analyzes reports of unidentified flying objects seen on 24 and 26 July 1948 across Alabama, Georgia and Virginia, among them the cigar-shaped object that Eastern Airlines pilots Chiles and Whitted saw near Montgomery. The report treats some of the sightings as meteors. It concludes the Chiles-Whitted object was not a meteor and remains unidentified as to origin, construction and power source.
This NICAP case file compilation (Dan Wilson) collects material on the July 1948 Chiles-Whitted sighting near Montgomery, Alabama. It includes a NICAP note naming Eastern Air Lines Captain Clarence S. Chiles a special adviser, an exhibit list, and Air Force Office of Special Investigations reports dated November 1949. In those reports Chiles describes a lighted, cigar-shaped object with a red exhaust flame traveling at least 500 miles per hour. Atlanta Journal article extracts are also included.
This NICAP extract, compiled by Dan Wilson and undated, collects the statements of Eastern Air Lines pilot Capt. Clarence S. Chiles and co-pilot John B. Whitted on Trip 576, together with an Air Force check-list for unidentified flying objects. The pilots describe a wingless, cigar-shaped object about 100 feet long that passed their DC-3 near Montgomery, Alabama, at 2:45 AM in July 1948. They report two rows of lit windows and a flame exhaust. The object made no sound and pulled up into clouds.