Category 11 Case Directory SIGHTINGS FROM AIRCRAFT Preliminary Rating: 5 |
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AVCAT is a special
project being conducted by NICAP, with the
help and cooperation of the original compiler
of AIRCAT, Dr. Richard Haines, and other
sources, to create a comprehensive listing of
sightings from aircraft with detailed
documentation from these sources, including
Projects SIGN, GRUDGE & BLUE BOOK. |
2:35 a.m. local Duration 5-10 secs DC-3 aircraft United States |
Civilian 2 observer No EMI No radar contact |
Brad Sparks:
July 24, 1948, Montgomery, Alabama 2:35 a.m. Eastern Airlines pilots, Captain C.S. Chiles and First Officer J.B. Whitted, reported that a cigar-shaped object with lights like portholes approached head-on, accelerated, climbed away. [Battelle Unknown No. 5] 5-10 secs) Captain Edward J. Ruppelt: "At about 2:45 A.M., when
the flight was 20 miles southwest of Montgomery, the
captain, Chiles, saw a light dead ahead and closing
fast. His first reaction, he later reported to an ATIC
investigation team, was that it was a jet, but in an
instant he realized that even a jet couldn't close as
fast as this light was closing. Chiles said he reached
over, gave Whitted, the other pilot, a quick tap on
the arm, and pointed. The UFO was now almost on top of
them. Chiles racked the DC-3 into a tight left turn.
Just as the UFO flashed by about 700 feet to the
right, the DC-3 hit turbulent air. Whitted looked back
just as the UFO pulled up in a steep climb. Both the
pilots had gotten a good look at the UFO and were able
to give a good description to the Air Force
intelligence people. It was a B-29 fuselage. The
underside had a "deep blue glow." There were "two rows
of windows from which bright lights glowed," and a
"bright trail of orange red flame" shot out the back."
"In intelligence, if you
have something to say about some vital problem you
write a report that is known as an "Estimate of the
Situation." A few days after the DC-3 was buzzed, the
people at ATIC decided that the time had arrived to
make an estimate of the Situation. The situation was
the UFO's; the estimate was that they were
interplanetary!" One of our researchers went through all the news and official accounts about this case that he could find, specifically looking at the issue of noise and jetwash. Without exception, Chiles and Whitted told reporters that they had felt the blast, but when official interviewers, like Loedding and OSI agents asked them they insisted that they heard no noise and felt no wake. In some cases the "no" is underlined in the interviews. We don't understand this discrepancy, but consider the pilots reliable. Detailed reports and documents Chiles-Whitted Case (NARCAP) reports/480724montgomery_shough.pdf (Martin Shough) * Drawing from page 48 (The UFO Evidence, 1964) Chiles-Whited Case Report (Edward Ruppelt) The Chiles-Whitted Case (Dr. James E. McDonald) Memorandum To The Press (Project Saucer Report, April 27, 1949) Air Brief - Special Study (April 27, 1949) Air Intelligence Report transcript of Report 100-203-79 [April 28, 1949] (Project 1947) Top Secret Air Intelligence Report No. 100-203-79 [ordered destroyed, full 19 pages in pdf] (AIIR) Watershed: The Chiles-Whitted "rocketship" Sighting (Joel Carpenter/Project 1947) Chiles-Whitted Sighting - Brad Sparks (UFO Updates, Sept. 20, 2004) Blue Book Documents MAXW-PBB4 4-23 - Chiles-Whitted Case (Dan Wilson) MAXW-PBB4 33-37 - Statement by Pilots (Dan Wilson) NARA-PBB2-1418-1448 - 30 more documents (Dan Wilson) MAXW-PBB4 46-51, 153-154 - Report by Project Officer Sneider (Dan Wilson) MAXW-PBB4 52-54 - Chiles-Whitted / TRUE UNKNOWN (Dan Wilson) NARA-PBB2 1414-1417 - 24 July 1948 Sightings Analysis (Dan Wilson) MAXW-PBB4 144 - Loedding Requests Information from Eastern Airlines (Dan Wilson) Other sightings MAXW-PBB4 119-124 - July 23, 1948, Robins AFB, GA Sighting (Dan Wilson) |