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Benjamin W. Chidlaw

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Benjamin W. Chidlaw (1900-1956) was an American Air Force general who served as Commanding General of the Air Materiel Command at Wright Field (later Wright-Patterson AFB) during the late 1940s. A key figure in early U.S. military aviation, he oversaw logistics, procurement, and research for the Air Force. In the context of UFO research, Chidlaw was directly linked to the 1947 Roswell incident through a sworn affidavit by Colonel Thomas J. DuBose, Chief of Staff to Maj. Gen. Roger Ramey. DuBose stated that debris from Roswell was secretly transported via B-26 to Maj. Gen. Clements McMullen in Washington, D.C., who then forwarded it by personal courier to Chidlaw at Wright Field under strict secrecy. The public weather balloon explanation was a cover story. No known publications or personal testimony from Chidlaw on UAPs exist; his role appears logistical in handling potential anomalous materials amid early UFO reports post-Kenneth Arnold sighting.

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