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

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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.

  • p. 2 …this sighting first came to the attention of the ATIC through a UPI press release . the…
  • p. 14 # HEADQUARTERS 26TH AIR DIVISION (SAGE) UNITED STATES AIR FORCE SYRACUSE AIR FORCE STATION SYRACUSE, NEW YORK…
  • p. 17 …The tankers had a ground speed of approximately 210 knots and the United Airlines pilots' reported…
  • p. 35 …23 the Air Force released to the press this official opinion: "Experts of the Technical Intelligence…
  • p. 36 …prohibiting the freedom of speech or of the press." While the silence order was imposed on…
  • p. 43 …Long Island Daily Press.
  • p. 47 …I personally was not contacted by the United States Government in regard to the sighting. However…
  • p. 51 …Then on the morning of February 28, it released to the press this official opinion of…
  • p. 52 …Pilots of both American and United flights have stated emphatically they saw the mysterious lights and…
  • p. 53 …In a statement to the Long Island Daily Press on March 24 Captain Killian said, "I…
  • p. 65 to unite against attack by people from other planets? (The existence of official documents mentioned above…
  • p. 70 …Meanwhile, although Killian did not know it at the time, three United Airlines crews along a…
  • p. 76 …The tankers had a ground speed of approximately 210 knots and the United Airlines pilots reported…
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)

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