Documents / Document
No summary written yet.
Read from the scan by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word.
Call it what you like - a Flying Gunner, a Suicide Soul Plate or a Pink Elephant. what you may - that I must have had one over the mark and what I saw were the effects of the morning after the night before, but, whatever you may think or say is ruled out by the foot that what I and many others saw was certainly something out of the ordinary. Before I say any more I would like to mention that I have been associated with aeronautics for over twenty years. I am an aeronautical Engineer and a pilot without exaggeration my eyes and ears are so trained that should there be any unnatural sound or irregularity in the sky, before you could say knifey transition would be entertained to it. On Thursday morning the 15th June, 1951, at 10:20 hours Indian Standard Time I was standing by my own xkrix which was being serviced by three conventions and Mr. a young led who recently qualified as an engineer. All of a sudden attention was drawn to this swirly cloud suddenly appearing in the sky from North to South about seven hundred feet in length and approximately four to five thousand feet high quite near the Delhi Flying Club Hanger. I immediately called out Mr. showed him the strange cloud and said what in the hell is that? Before he could say anything the cloud increased in length and then at the end of it appeared a bullet nose shape with a whitish tail approximately 100 ft. long. On seeing this we shouted out those (mechanics, alarms, and apprehensions) working in the heavens. About 17 to 20 people rushed out and saw it. I must not admit that all these who saw it with me have been in the aeronautical line for 4 years and over. The object made no sound whatever and it proceeded South. After travelling in this direction for 3 minutes it made a loop or (that looked like a loop from a slavonor) at the top of the loop we could clearly see a silver-coloured bullet nose shiny glittering in the sky which seemed to be some sort of metal. At the end of the nose there was a leaf of Crimson Red dolour followed by a whitish tail. I give below a rough sketch. after completing the loop it headed south...not leaving a winding trail aloud similar to the one left over the aeronaute. The object was
Document, cited by the archive. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 8 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.