Documents / Document
Project Blue Book documents on the Killian case, compiled by Dan Wilson
NICAP · 83 pages · text by OCR
This NICAP compilation by Dan Wilson gathers Project Blue Book records on the sighting of 24 February 1959, when American Airlines Flight 139, flying from Newark to Detroit, and two United Airlines crews saw three lights over Pennsylvania and Ohio. It includes the record card, pilot statements, Air Force letters and correspondence with an Akron UFO committee. The Air Force concluded that the lights came from three B-47s refueling from KC-97 tankers. Book excerpts disputing Captain Killian's later claims are also included.
“Nevers”20 pages
- p. 3 …that Captain states in his report that he has never witnessed a night refueling operation . Yet
- p. 12 MEMO ROUTING SLIP NEVER USE FOR APPROVALS, DISAPPROVALS, OR RECURRENCE, OR SIMILAR ACTIONS
1. NAME OR…
- p. 20 …could be a jet tanker refueling operation. Never having witnessed refueling operation at night, I am…
- p. 33 …could be a jet tanker refueling operation. Never having witnessed refueling operations at night, I am…
- p. 36 …Airlines, quoting Captain saying that he had never seen jet refuelling operations at night and that…
- p. 39 …planes for 15 years, said, "I have never seen anything like it before."
Killian said other…
- p. 40 …said never seen anything before."
man said other members crew and the 35 passengers saw the…
- p. 45 …all my period of flying, I have never in my life seen anything even remotely resembling…
- p. 46 …I thought - well, there must be something to it, but what, I was never sure. These…
- p. 47 …is in New York, but I have never experienced an thing like that before. It might…
- p. 52 …since 1929 and who states he has never seen anything like this before, is not likely…
- p. 58 …the situation by ATIC later declassified but never released, stating that the flying saucers were interplanetary…
- p. 59 …of Intelligence investigations of UFOs: "It will never be possible to say with certainty that any…
- p. 62 …could be a jet tanker refueling operation. Never having witnessed refueling operation at night. I am…
- p. 66 …This man had been a civilian pilot for five and he said that he had never…
- p. 69 …is in New York but I have never experienced anything like that before."
WHEN Killian first…
- p. 72 …He told the Detroit Times, "I never attached any importance to the fact that they may…
- p. 73 …encounter "awe inspiring" and said he had never seen anything like that in the air before…
- p. 80 …at night. (Original statement to American Airlines: "Never having witnessed refueling operations at night, I am…
- p. 82 …could be a jet-tanker refueling operation. Never having witnessed refueling operations at night, I am…
HEADQUARTERS 2253D AIR BASE GROUP United States Air Force Greater Pittsburgh Airport Coraopolis, Pennsylvania
BO
SUBJECT: Unidentified Flying Objects
TO: Commander Air Technical Intelligence Center Wright Patterson Air Force Base Dayton, Ohio
1. In reference to telephone call received from Sgt Bolieu, your headquarters, at 0820 hours, 2 March 1959, concerning three unidentified lights sighted by the tower operators here at Greater Pittsburgh Airport at approximately 0140Z, 25 February 1959, the following information is submitted.
2. The tower operators on duty at the time of the sighting reported that three lights were observed. An immediate check with disclosed there were three B-47s in the area at the time on a night refueling mission. The tower operators made no report due to the fact there was nothing unusual to report. Furthermore, no statements were made to the newspapers.
3. The names of the tower operators would not be given by the control tower supervisor because he did not want the personnel concerned involved in an investigation.
FOR THE COMMANDER:
Captain, USAF
Administrative Officer
About this file
Document, cited by the archive. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. The text was read from the page images by an OCR model; expect the odd misread word. 83 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.