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Chuck Yeager

Military
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Military

Charles Elwood 'Chuck' Yeager (1923-2020) was an American Air Force brigadier general and test pilot renowned for breaking the sound barrier in 1947 aboard the Bell X-1. While not directly involved in UAP/UFO research or military UFO programs like Project Sign, his historic flight on October 14, 1947, coincided precisely with the emergence of the modern UFO era, sparked by Kenneth Arnold's sighting of nine saucer-like objects near Mount Rainier just months earlier. Arnold's reported speeds exceeding 1,000 mph dwarfed Yeager's 700 mph achievement, fueling speculation about advanced technology. Yeager later flew captured MiG-15s in foreign materiel exploitation programs at Wright-Patterson AFB, a site linked to UFO lore including the Twining Memo and Roswell. No known publications or testimony from Yeager on UAP exist.

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