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Chiles-Whitted UFO encounter

DATE24 Jul 1948
LOCAL TIME—
LOCATIONMontgomery, Alabama, United States
COORDINATES32.34°N, 86.32°W

Clarence Chiles and John Whitted, American commercial pilots, reported that their airplane had nearly collided with a UFO near Montgomery. According to the pilots the object "looked like a wingless aircraft...it seemed to have two rows of windows through which glowed a very bright light, as brilliant as a magnesium flare."

[ PRIMARY CITATION // COMPILED REFERENCE · CTD-0046 ]

WITNESSES & UNITS

Capt. Clarence Chiles & John Whitted

SENSORS & EVIDENCE

Archived investigative case file

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