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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.
“UFO Files”3 pages
# DC-6 Pilot, Passengers, See Saucers Detroit (AP) The pilot of an American Airlines DC-6 passenger plane said yesterday three mysterious objects that looked like shining saucers appeared to accompany the plane for 45 minutes Tuesday night on its nonstop flight from Newark, N.J., to Detroit. Capt. Peter Killian of Syosset, N.Y., who has flown passenger planes for 15 years, said, "I have never seen anything like it before." Killian said other members of the crew and the 35 passengers also saw the flying objects. KILLIAN AND Co-Pilot John Dee of Nyack, N.Y., said they lost the three strange objects in the haze when they started their descent for landing at Detroit's Metropolitan Airport while the plane was over Cleveland, O. N. D. Puscas, Garden City, Mich., a passenger, said the strange objects appeared to dance in the sky. Puscas is general manufacturing manager of Curtis Wright Division at Utica.
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