The Daily News: "Airline Pilots Rub Their Eyes, See a Fiery, Wingless Whatizit"
The Chiles-Whitted UFO encounter described the pilots 1948 encounter and shows the pilots together.
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Project Blue Book Case File: Chiles-Whitted UFO incident. Contains newspaper article clippings, memos, reports and witness statements and sketches.
Statement of Captain Clarence S. Chiles from August 3, 1948.
Statement of First Officer and Co-pilot John B. Whitted from August 3, 1948.
Sketch of object witnessed by pilot Chiles, made at an Atlanta hotel on July 26, 1948.
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.
Two fox hunters in Georgia view object similar to the UFO in the Chiles-Whitted encounter.
July 25, 1948 Atlanta Journal article.
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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...
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