Statement of First Officer and Co-pilot John B. Whitted

Statement of First Officer and Co-pilot John B. Whitted from August 3, 1948.

Documents

A selection of most relevant documents related to Statement of First Officer and Co-pilot John B. Whitted.

Chiles and Whitted were co-pilots and witnesses of a famous 1948 UFO sighting, now dubbed the "Chiles-Whitted UFO encounter". They both offered similar accounts of the sighting.

Chiles-Whitted UFO Incident - Project Blue Book Case File

Whitted's statement from the 1948 Chiles-Whitted UFO sighting is included in the Project Blue Book Case File.

Sketch of object witnessed by pilot Chiles, made at an Atlanta hotel on July 26, 1948.

Sketch of object witnessed by First Officer and Co-pilot Whitted, made at an Atlanta hotel on July 26.

Sketch of object witnessed by co-pilot Whitted, made at an Atlanta hotel on July 26, 1948.

Chiles-Whitted UFO Encounter Witness - Robins Air Force Base.

Two days after the Chiles-Whitted UFO encounter pilots in Washington state witnessed a silvery orb object.

The Chiles-Whitted incident made the front page of The Atlanta Constitution one day after the UFO encounter.

The Atlanta Constitution detailed the Chiles-Whitted pilot testimony one day after the UFO sighting.

Eastern Air Lines pilots Chiles and Whitted described the "manmade" object they witnessed in 1948.

The Chiles-Whitted UFO encounter described the pilots 1948 encounter and shows the pilots together.

Two fox hunters in Georgia view object similar to the UFO in the Chiles-Whitted encounter.

Atlanta Journal article about the Chiles-Whitted UFO encounter.

July 25, 1948 Atlanta Journal article.

Related Incidents

Chiles-Whitted UFO Encounter

July 1948

In the summer of 1948, two pilots, a passenger and a person on the ground reported seeing a "cigar shaped" object that had windows and emitted flames, and moved at a high rate of speed in the night sky. This early sighting was widely reported in newspapers. Flight 576 Early in the morning of July...