The Chiles-Whitted Encounter – UFO Sighting by Commercial Pilots
In this episode of Mysteries of UFOs, we revisit the Chiles-Whitted Encounter, one of the earliest and most influential UFO sightings of the modern era. On July 24, 1948, two Eastern Air Lines pilots—Captain Clarence Chiles and First Officer John Whitted—witnessed a glowing, cigar-shaped object streaking toward their DC-3 passenger plane near Montgomery, Alabama. The craft, estimated to be about 100 feet long, featured a row of illuminated windows, emitted an intense bluish-white light, and then shot upward into the clouds with incredible speed.
The sighting, also confirmed by another…
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