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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.
“meteor”25 pages
- p. 12 …It was concluded that objects observed were not aircraft, but probably of meteoric nature.
Approved Action…
- p. 15 …I thought at first it was a shooting star or a meteor, but a shooting star…
- p. 18 …Did the altitude, speed, and size of this object have any similarity to a meteor or…
- p. 20 …A study of the case indicates that the UFO was merely a meteor. Apparently this was…
- p. 31 …be satisfied by a brilliant, slow-moving meteor. The orange-red flame is particularly suggestive. It…
- p. 33 …If there is no time difference, the object must have been an extraordinary meteor. The observation…
- p. 34 …ilia and lab was very probably a meteor.
It should be noted that this object was…
- p. 35 …Gill ADDRESS
FROM ADDRESS
SUBJECT Report of Meteor seen on July 24, 1948 DATE August 3…
- p. 46 …Not Stated A-2
Not Stated Bright Meteor Not Stated Traveling Horizontally Died Out A-2…
- p. 47 …This sighting is considered separately since the descriptions of speed as "meteoric" or "terrific", the manner…
- p. 51 …Hynek's conclusion and the case is evaluated as a meteor sighting.
- p. 53 …A meteor.
Mrs. Atkinson kept her Flying Floorlamp secret three weeks. But she knew she wasn…
- p. 54 …They denied suggestions that it might have been a meteor or comet, or an Army radar…
- p. 55 …was fairly sure that this was a meteor. At about the same time, a plane flying…
- p. 58 …The manner of disappearance of a meteor is like a light suddenly blinking off.
(4) Incident…
- p. 61 …Chiles and Whitted both said they were certain it was not a meteor or comet, because…
- p. 65 These facts alone—the occurrence of scheduled showers and the number of well-plotted meteors observed…
- p. 66 …Instead of accepting the Chiles-Whitted UFO as a meteor, they identified the other two meteors…
- p. 68 …30, 1949, identified it as an undoubted meteor. Nevertheless, as late as 1960, apparently not all…
- p. 71 24 JULY 1948
Probable Astro (METEOR)
- p. 91 …Description of this object seems to indicate that it was a meteor. Five of the observers…
- p. 92 …This sighting is considered separately since the descriptions of speed as "meteoric" or "terrific", the manner…
- p. 100 …Spood meteoric
13. Diroction of flight Southerly
14. Tactics traveling horizontally
15. Sound N/S
16…
- p. 101 …Discussed the matter that the meteor appeared to be traveling horizontally.
At the time they were…
- p. 103 …Blackstone, Va., who saw a very unusual meteor that appeared to be on a bearing of…
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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