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Single panel intelligence dossier image for the July 24 1948 Chiles-Whitted case rendered in muted late-1940s night color showing the nose and starboard wing of a 1948 Eastern Air Lines DC-3 airliner banking left in a pre-dawn sky over Alabama with a distant squall line and faint ground lights below and two pilot silhouettes in the lit cockpit, while passing off the starboard side slightly above is a wingless cigar or rocket-shaped craft with a pointed nose roughly airliner-size but thicker showing two parallel rows of brightly glowing rectangular ports blazing a blue-white burning-magnesium light a bluish glow along its underside and a long orange-red exhaust wake as it angles into a sharp upward pull-up, with HUD overlays marking the wingless cigar-rocket object about B-29 size and twice as thick with no wings or tail, the two rows of glowing ports, the bluish underside glow and orange-red wake and sharp pull-up before vanishing, the matching independent pilot drawings, the Robins AFB Georgia corroboration about an hour earlier, the DD structured-object night classification, the witnesses Captain Clarence Chiles and First Officer John Whitted of Eastern Air Lines, the McDonald 1968 Congress and NICAP source, and the Unexplained status with the Air Force meteor reclassification noted as contested, with a lower strip reading thinkaboutitdocs.com — UAP/Entity Archive by Date

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Alabama Sightings

1948: The Chiles-Whitted Case

Published: April 8, 2013 | Updated: June 5, 2026

THINK ABOUTIT UFO SIGHTING REPORT 1948: The Chiles-Whitted Case At a quarter to three on the morning of July 24, 1948, an Eastern Air...