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'5-ky Devil-Ship' Scares Pilots;
Air Chief Wishes He Had One
Plane Makers
Dubious About
Alabama 'Thing'
By WILLIAM KEY
What was that Thint
tbat
scared the daylights out of two
Atlanta Eastern Air Line pDoa
the spooky hours Sa~
morning!
Is there some stratospheric Loch
Ness fire-breathing monster on
the Milky Way run between At­
lanta and New Orleans?
The :- lots. C:i;>t, C. S. Chiln.
of Atlanta, and Co-Pilot ,J. B.
Whitted. of Hapeville. would like
to know. The Army Strategic Air
Command would like to know. Bht
airplane manufacturers al•o are
curiou~. but slightly dubious.
Pilots Chiles and Whitted told
their thrillinJt story upon arriv­
ing at municipal airport here Sat­
urday on the Houston-AUanta,
Boston run. Here i~ what they
say they saw, near Mont,tomery:
A gigantic plane without winits,
!black against the
niJtht i;ky,
5treakin1t through the heaven5 at
5,000 feet altitude with a fiery
comet's tail 25 to 50 feet in
length. It had a 100-foot fuselaae
about four times the circumfer­
ence of a B-29's, and two rows
of
brilliantlv
lighted
1Quare
windows. Creepiest ot all, it was
a veritable rJyjrs«J)utchman of
the Skies. Nt'ry a living soul was
, een aboard_!_~~----­
EAL FLIERS DESCRIBE WINGLESS AIRCRAFT
Copilot J8hn Whitted and Capt. C. S. Chiles (right).
ATIANTA JOIJRNA.L
SUlIDAY • 7/25/48