Posted On: June 9, 2022

The year was 1947. The place, unknown location over the skies of the United States. Eastern Airlines DC-3 had a near miss with an enormous cigar shaped UFO.

In the early hours of July 25th, 1948, Captain Clarence S. Chiles and co-pilot John B. Whitted, flying an Eastern Airlines DC-3, were approached by an object that seemed to be on a collision course.

"Whatever it was, it flashed down toward us and we veered to the left," Chiles told investigators. "It veered to its left and passed us about 700 feet to our right and above us. Then, as if the pilot had seen us and wanted to avoid us, it pulled up with a tremendous burst of flame from the rear and zoomed into the clouds, its prop wash or jet wash rocking our DC-3."

The pilots reported that the object was "a wingless aircraft, 100 feet long, cigar-shaped and about twice the diameter of a B-29 with no protruding surfaces".

Captain Chiles said the cabin appeared "Like a pilot compartment, except brighter. From the side of the object came an intense, fairly dark blue glow that ran the entire length of the fuselage. The exhaust was a red-orange flame, with a lighter color predominant around the edges".

The sketches drawn by the pilots show that the object had "windows or openings" in its side. To eliminate the possibility that the pilots had merely seen another plane. Air Force Intelligence personnel screened 225 civilian and military flight schedules and found that the only other aircraft in the vicinity was an Air Force C 47, which hardly matches the description given.

1948: Top Secret USAF Analyses

Less than two weeks after the Eastern Airlines sighting, Air Technical Intelligence Center, (ATIC), decided the time had come to make what intelligence jargon refers to as an "Estimate of the Situation".

Captain Edward Ruppelt, former head of the Air Force Project Blue Book, who was one of the few to see the lengthy top secret document, dated August 5th, 1948, has confirmed that ATIC concluded that the UFOs were interplanetary in origin.

General Hoyt Vandenberg, then Chief of Staff, rejected it for lack of proof, even after a group from ATIC visited his office at the Pentagon in an attempt to persuade him to change his mind.

Some months later, on Vandenberg’s instructions, the document was ordered to be burned.

As a member of the MJ-12 panel, Vandenberg would have had all the proof he needed to establish the extraterrestrial origin of the flying disks. So why then did he reject the ATIC estimate?

"The general said it would cause a stampede", Ruppelt told Major Keyhoe. "How could we convince the public the aliens weren’t hostile when we didn’t know it ourselves"?

In 1985, the hitherto top secret Analysis of Flying Object Incidents in the U.S. was declassified and released. Dated December 10th, 1948, the nineteen-page document carefully avoids any suggestion that the UFOs could be extraterrestrial, but nevertheless concludes that "some type of flying objects have been observed, although their identification and origin are not discernable".

Resources: Above Top Secret, Timothy Good, 1988

My Take: Either both pilots made up a huge lie for unknown reasons or we have a genuine UFO here. How many conventional 100 foot wingless cigar shaped aircraft were flying around in 1948?

As for the Estimate of the Situation report. It’s exactly what I think happened. The government was terrified that people would freak out if they knew the truth about UFOs and Aliens.

Posted On: June 9, 2022

The year was 1947. The place, unknown location over the skies of the United States. Eastern Airlines DC-3 had a near miss with an enormous cigar shaped UFO.

In the early hours of July 25th, 1948, Captain Clarence S. Chiles and co-pilot John B. Whitted, flying an Eastern Airlines DC-3, were approached by an object that seemed to be on a collision course.

"Whatever it was, it flashed down toward us and we veered to the left," Chiles told investigators. "It veered to its left and passed us about 700 feet to our right and above us. Then, as if the pilot had seen us and wanted to avoid us, it pulled up with a tremendous burst of flame from the rear and zoomed into the clouds, its prop wash or jet wash rocking our DC-3."

The pilots reported that the object was "a wingless aircraft, 100 feet long, cigar-shaped and about twice the diameter of a B-29 with no protruding surfaces".

Captain Chiles said the cabin appeared "Like a pilot compartment, except brighter. From the side of the object came an intense, fairly dark blue glow that ran the entire length of the fuselage. The exhaust was a red-orange flame, with a lighter color predominant around the edges".

The sketches drawn by the pilots show that the object had "windows or openings" in its side. To eliminate the possibility that the pilots had merely seen another plane. Air Force Intelligence personnel screened 225 civilian and military flight schedules and found that the only other aircraft in the vicinity was an Air Force C 47, which hardly matches the description given.

1948: Top Secret USAF Analyses

Less than two weeks after the Eastern Airlines sighting, Air Technical Intelligence Center, (ATIC), decided the time had come to make what intelligence jargon refers to as an "Estimate of the Situation".

Captain Edward Ruppelt, former head of the Air Force Project Blue Book, who was one of the few to see the lengthy top secret document, dated August 5th, 1948, has confirmed that ATIC concluded that the UFOs were interplanetary in origin.

General Hoyt Vandenberg, then Chief of Staff, rejected it for lack of proof, even after a group from ATIC visited his office at the Pentagon in an attempt to persuade him to change his mind.

Some months later, on Vandenberg’s instructions, the document was ordered to be burned.

As a member of the MJ-12 panel, Vandenberg would have had all the proof he needed to establish the extraterrestrial origin of the flying disks. So why then did he reject the ATIC estimate?

"The general said it would cause a stampede", Ruppelt told Major Keyhoe. "How could we convince the public the aliens weren’t hostile when we didn’t know it ourselves"?

In 1985, the hitherto top secret Analysis of Flying Object Incidents in the U.S. was declassified and released. Dated December 10th, 1948, the nineteen-page document carefully avoids any suggestion that the UFOs could be extraterrestrial, but nevertheless concludes that "some type of flying objects have been observed, although their identification and origin are not discernable".

Resources: Above Top Secret, Timothy Good, 1988

My Take: Either both pilots made up a huge lie for unknown reasons or we have a genuine UFO here. How many conventional 100 foot wingless cigar shaped aircraft were flying around in 1948?

As for the Estimate of the Situation report. It’s exactly what I think happened. The government was terrified that people would freak out if they knew the truth about UFOs and Aliens.