Chiles and Whitted Motioning the Angle of the Craft
Chiles and Whitted were copilots when they witnessed an unknown aircraft while flying in 1948. Here they recreated the angle of the craft.
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Date:
1948
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Credit:
The Atlanta Journal
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An Eastern Airlines DC3 similar to the one flown on Flight 576 on June 24, 1948.
Investigators claimed that the pilots' sketches and descriptions of the double deck design matched the Lockheed R6V prototype plane, which was in flight November 1946 through the 1950s.
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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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