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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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# ADDITIONAL SIGHTINGS ADD WORLD WIDE CREDENCE TO REPORTS On the evening of February 24th two Scandinavian Airline pilots flying over Denmark, independently that they had seen UFO's. At 9:45 AM February 25, 1959 a strange sighting was made. While driving to work, a Ohio chemist saw a large, dark, cigar-shaped object. He described it as being the size of a dirigible. The object appeared solid and seemed to be moving about 30 miles The object passed in front of the car and then traveled along horizontally beside about 1,000 yards away and approximately 500 feet high. It had a red light on the and a blinking orange light on the bottom. This man had been a civilian pilot for five and he said that he had never seen anything like it before. He observed this object about 45 minutes, while outside the car. The object appeared to change shape. He des- as coming apart in the middle and opening in what he described as a bellows effect. may remember, this corresponds to the thermostate shaped sightings in New- Upon reaching Brecksville, Ohio he boarded a bus with another man and they the object together. It was by this time quite some distance away. When they behind a distant hill and was lost from sight. same day at 8:45 AM, an engineering firm employee at Hobbs, New Mexico saw outshaped object and at the same time heard signals on his car radio. The object from West to East at a high rate of speed. The interference on his radio stopped disappeared. The interference was a steady succession of two dots and adash no idea of the object's size nor of the distance it was from him. February 28th two days later than the Airlines sighting, between 7:25 and 7:45 disc was reported by officials to be hovering over a London, England airport. Fighter Command Headquarters described the light as "a bright yellow light that in intensity, some two hundred feet from the ground. It stayed in one position for twenty minutes, then climbed away at a high speed." (Here again we find the same variations in intensity of the light as was stated by Captain Killian.) Air Traffic Controllers, and others apparently had it in view and examined it The Air Ministry issued two explanations. While the light was hovering, it was directly the planet Venus, they said. When it climbed away, the light was the nose cone of civilian aircraft. These poor explanations have been so worn to shreds that there light that the light was neither of the two things the Ministry said it was. Just what remains a mystery.
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