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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.
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# Air Force Explains # ights in Sky Real McCoy HINGTON, March 20 (AP). THE Air Force said today that mysterious lighted objects were reported by a commercial airliner were lights of jet bombers refueling in air. lights were reported on the of Feb. 24 over Pennsylvan. Ohio and Michigan. The of an American Airlines and a number of the 33angers on a flight from New N. J., to Detroit told about lying objects. days later the Air Force Intelligence Agency Wright-Patterson Air Force said the lights might have stars glimpsed through in heavy cloud forma- Air Force said today. er, that it now has been defined that the lights were 47 bombers that were be- bleed by a KC-97 tanker operation that lasted for man one hour. The Air report said that use of lights during the refuel- nined "some of the com- airlines reports of be- loved by lights."
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