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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.
“United Press”13 pages
- 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…
3 flights in straight line from
50 miles E. of Youngstown
as watched the one in middle
varied its distance, fits work
very in intensity. As obs.
got past Y, the litter
world disappear and
reappear. As obs. were apport
halfway between, took
off and disappeared.
seen approx 20 minutes in all.
United Airlines pilots saw it
well as American airlines.
the American airlines is apparently
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