The 24 July 1948 at 2:45 am, a flight DC-3 of Eastern Airlines was about 30 km south-west of Montgomery (Alabama). The flight originated from Houston (Texas), going to Atlanta (Georgia) and was conducted by the pilot Clarence S. Chiles and co-pilot John B. Whitted . Everything was going nicely when suddenly a intense light appeared before them: Chiles had just time to make a sharp turn to the right avoiding the UFO whisking about 200 m from them to high speeds . Immediately the subject are rising and accelerating vertically very quickly disappeared from view.
The DC-3 airplane crossing the unidentified swings eerily like under the influence of a violent moving air . The pilots described the OVNI like an airplane cigar-shaped of about thirty meters, devoid of wings, and often as two B.29, whose side were a row of windows that emanated an intense light that witnesses described as " spectral ". From the back of the cigar out yellow-orange flames for 10-15 meters.
The case was classified as unexplained. This case, along with that of Mantell and Gorman, was considered by the Committee of Inquiry into the UFO phenomenon Project Blue Book as one of the first sightings in the classic story dell'ufologia.