The Los Angeles Times: "Fliers Who Saw Sky Monster Stick to Story"
Eastern Air Lines pilots Chiles and Whitted described the "manmade" object they witnessed in 1948.
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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.
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.
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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