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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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“Rogers”8 pages

  • p. 17 …Did you ever see any planes in "Buck Rogers" comes that resembled this object? A. 31…
  • p. 53 …To them, it was "a wingless craft, spurting flame like a Buck Rogers rocket ship." Elsewhere…
  • p. 54 …who reported seeing a huge flamehooting Buck Rogers sky monster near Montgomery, Ala., yesterday maintained stoutly…
  • p. 55 …The pilots said the stranger looked like a "Buck Rogers rocket ship." The two pilots—Captain…
  • p. 56 …flame-throwing aircraft straight out of Buck Rogers. Capt. Charles Shipe Chiles and John B. Whitted…
  • p. 62 …July 24. (AP) A strange wingless plane shooting red flame "like a Buck Rogers rocket ship…
  • p. 63 …Whitted, said they saw the wingless "Buck Rogers" craft. They had reported seeing it at 2…
  • p. 64 …plane shooting red flame "like a Buck Rogers rocket ship" was described today by two Eastern…
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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