[UFO] [2]: 7262140-20060474F-001-010-2023

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INTERVIEW WITH SNOOPY 2 POLICE HELICOPTER PILOT
CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA - 27 DECEMBER 1977 INCIDENT
CODE: W - Witness (the pilot) I - lnten·iewer(s)
SIDE B, TAPE 2
W: It was on December 27th. approximately 5 minutes lill l lp.m. We were Oymg out on the
Independence Boulevard area. There was a call that came over the police radio at 9th and College. We
weren't sure what the call was. We understood they were looking for an automobile so we headed that
way. I was traveling a nonh-northwesterly direction toward the 9th and College. As I was headed that
way. I observed two objects. It was approximately 2.000 foot indicated altitude. I pointed to my panner
__ and showed him the two objects. I thought at first it was two military helicopters headed towards
Fon Bragg. It was like they were flying in formal.ion and it appeared they had their landing light on. As
we went under both objects. I observed that there was no rotating beacon. no strobe light. no nangauonal
lights or an~1hing.
After going underneath them I swung back around - it was only a minute. They had the car they were
looking for. So we turned around. I was going to go back around and check II out. Going back. I couldn't
find the objects. I got to the Coliseum. I circled around the Coliseum and turned back to the nonherly -
to a nonherly direct.ion. As I did. I observed the two objects coming at me. I was doing approximately a
hundred. a hundred and ten miles an hour at this particular time. So I pulled back on the cyclip and
staned climbing. losing my air speed. I was trying to get behind the one that was the closest to me. As
both objects passed by. I turned to the left and tried to circle behind one of the objects. One of the obJects
that was in front appeared to climb to about four thousand foot. The other object turned to an easterly
direction. I was turning to a westerly direclion so I immediately swung back to the right - to an easterly
direction. As I did. I observed the object and I was within two hundred foot of it. It was a bright glow of
light. it looked JUSI about like the light that a 100 - 150 watt light bulb would put out. I obsen-ed the light.
It glowed upward instead of outward. The shape of the top of the object appeared to be the shape of a
parachute. It had the ribbed seams in it. II was about half the size of a parachute.
As I observed it. a ball offire ;ame from the front ponion of the object and fell approximately ten f<Ylt •
that's all 1 could sec. And then the object took off m an easterly direction. 1 staned after the object
About that lime. the control tower operator called me and told me he had a target south of me around
South Park Shopping Center. I swung to the south and I observed the same object. We staned toward the
object and got \\1thin approximately a mile of it. The object disappeared. I immediately called the control
tower operator back and asked him ir he still had it on the screen. And he stated to me that it just dropped
it off the screen.
I: Okay. and ~·ou saw no more lights'! That was the end of the....
W. That was the end of it.
I: Okay. Uh. the total elapsed ume - what do you feel - did you note your watches when you first sa,, it
and then when 11 ended'! Did you get the elapsed time from the inuial sighting of the objects to when II
last.. '!
W: I would esumate that m, second encounter w1th them after I came around behind the Coliseum and
they were corrung out of the·nonh... I would say right about 11 :00 o'clock. We ha\'e a digital clock on the
instrument panel in the helicopter And I looked at the clock after I lost both • or all three • objects. And
it was fi\'e minutes after 11 .00. So. I saw the total thing and It lasted less than four minutes.