Crossword-Solution: CHILES 6 letters, 5 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

John Chiles was the first to wake, and as he looked towards his fellow-mower he saw one of those great white miller’s-souls as we call ’em—that is to say, a miller-moth—come from William’s open mouth while he slept, and fly straight away.

Here is the Air Force statement: “Application of the Prandtl theory of lift indicated that a fuselage of the dimensions reported by Chiles and Whitted could support a load comparable to the weight of an aircraft of this size, at flying speeds in the sub-sonic range.” (This supports Chiles’s estimate of 500-700 m.p.h.) Four days after the space-ship story was published, a Navy spokesman was quoted as hinting it might have been a high-atmosphere rocket gone astray from the proving grounds in New Mexico.

Chiles and Whitted insisted the mystery ship was not a disk, and the report from Robbins Field agreed on this point.

Even without the Robbins Field confirmation, no one could doubt that they saw something.” The Chiles-Whitted “space ship” was not the first of this type to be reported.

One wingless ship was supposed to have been seen three or four days before the Chiles-Whitted sighting; like the thing they reported, the unidentified craft was a double-decked “space ship” but moving at even higher speed.