1948 Chiles-Whitted News Articles

Type: Paper

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A collection of contemporaneous newspaper articles covering the 1948 Chiles–Whitted Encounter.

Published in the days following the July 24 sighting, the articles document the pilots' initial public accounts and the widespread media attention surrounding their report of a large, wingless, flame-emitting object over Alabama.

The collection also preserves variations in how different newspapers reported and interpreted the witnesses' descriptions.