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Chiles-Whitted UFO encounter

Event date
1948 Jul 24
Location
Montgomery, Alabama
Country
United States

Record summary

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."[83][84]

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