Project Blue Book documents on the Killian case, compiled by Dan Wilson

Read from the scan by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word.

DETROIT, FEB. 25--(UPI)--A REPORT OF "FLYING SAUCERS" OVER MICHIGAN TODAY FOLLOWED ON THE HEELS OF SIGHTINGS OF THREE UNIDENTIFIED-FLYING OBJECTS BY AN ENTIRE PLANELOAD OF PASSENGERS, PLUS THE CREW. IN SOUTHWESTERN MICHIGAN SAID

OBJECTS BY AN ENTIRE PLANELOAD OF PASSENGERS, PLEASE THE SOUTHWESTERN MICHIGAN SAID MRS. IN SOUTHWESTERN MICHIGAN SAID SHE WAS OUT IN A FIELD TRIMMING FRUIT TREES ABOUT 3 P.M. TODAY WHEN A HIRED HAND REPORTED SEEING THREE OR FOUR OBJECTS "ABOUT THE SIZE OF DINNER PLATES." SHE SAID SHE ALSO SAW THEM AND THE OBJECTS APPEARED LIGHT RED OR LIGHT PINK IN COLOR AND WERE "FLYING MUCH FASTER THAN A JET."

LAST NIGHT THREE STRANGE FLYING OBJECTS WERE FIRST SPOTTED OVER PENNSYLVANIA BY CAPT. OF SYOSSEY, N.Y., PILOT OF AN AMERICAN AIRLINES PLANE ENROUTE TO DETROIT FROM NEW YORK. OF NYACK, N.Y., AND

AMERICAN AIRLINES PLANE ENROUTE TO DETROIT FROM NEW YORK CHECKED WITH HIS CO-PILOT, OF NYACK, N.Y., AND HIS ENGINEER, WHO ALSO SAW THEM. THEN NOTIFIED THE 35 PASSENGERS ABOARD THE PLANE. MANUFACTURING MANAGER OF CURTIS WRIGHT DIVISION

PASSENGERS ABOARD THE PLANE. S, 41, MANUFACTURING MANAGER OF CURTIS WRIGHT DIVISION AT UTICA, SAID HE AND THE OTHER PASSENGERS SPOTTED THE STRANGE BLUISH- WHITE LIGHTS AFTER NOTIFIED THEM. HE ALSO PRAISED THE WAY THE PILOT TOLD THE PASSENGERS ABOUT THE LIGHTS. "IT WAS VERY CLEVER, "

HE SAID. "THERE WAS NO PANIC OR WORRY AMONG ANY OF THEM." SAID WHEN HE FIRST SAW THE MYSTERIOUS LIGHTS, HE THOUGHT THEY WERE THE BELT OF ORION, A GROUP OF STARS IN A ROW SIMILAR TO THE LIGHTS HE SAW. BUT HE SAID HE LOOKED AGAIN AND FOUND THE BELT OF ORION TOO.

SAID THE LIGHTS WERE NOT CLOSE TO THE PLANE, BUT APPEARED IN THE SOUTHERN SKY, A LITTLE HIGHER THAN HIS PLANE, WHICH WAS FLYING AT ABOUT 8,500 FEET. HE SAID THE LIGHTS APPEARED TO BE IN A UNIFORM LINE BUT AT TIMES CHANGED POSITION. TK1213A...-267c459)