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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
## SADCERS TRAIL AIRDRIVER show on Captain Killian's radar stream might be explained by an advanced technology using a special coating or materials that they knew would not show on radar. Colonel James said. A few days later, on March 11, Navy Rear Admiral George Dufek, who headed the U.S. Antarctic research and exploration program, did his bit to keep the controversy wide open. He advised the American public not to discount the possibility of UFO's. It is not beyond possibility that some of the supposed meteors erploding in the earth's atmosphere actually were saucers driven from Venus or other planets in our galaxy by intelligent creatures. "I think it's very stupid for human beings to believe that no one else in the universe is as intelligent as we are." Admiral Dufek declared. The dilemma of conflicting reports and counter-reports which has continued in recent months was dramatized by a statement made before a Congressional committee by Maj. Gen. William Dick, Jr. General Dick was asked if he had any information to substantiate flying saucer reports. "No, I do not." he declared. "But I answer that question with fear and trepidation because my wife believes in flying snocers."
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