Chiles-Whitted UFO Encounter

  Bright object at high altitude

Eastern Air Lines pilots Clarence Chiles and John Whitted saw a cigar-shaped craft streak past their DC-3 at 2 AM. Passengers glimpsed a bright flash as it ascended into clouds.¹²³

  Air Force review

Project Sign investigators considered the sighting evidence for possible extraterrestrial craft before downgrading the conclusion to meteor misidentification.⁴⁵

  References

1. en.wikipedia.org ↩

2. nicap.org ↩

3. bluebookarchive.org ↩

4. afhra.af.mil ↩

5. smithsonianmag.com ↩