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Kirkland
Lake, Ontario, NORTHERN DAILY NEWS, 5 July 1947, page 1
More
"Flying Saucers" Seen; Plane Crew Sees Whole Flight
PORTLAND, Ore., July 5 - (AP) - The "Flying Saucer"
mystery reached fever pitch today, after "I saw them
myself" statements from a veteran United Air Lines
crew, scores of Portland residents, and 60 picknickers at
Twin Falls Park in Idaho.
The pilot, co-pilot and stewardess, who had scoffed consistently
at "Flying Saucer" tales, said they saw such objects
last night while flying a passenger plane from Boise, Idaho,
to Portland.
Their statements followed a day during which the "Saucers"
were reported seen in many parts of the United States and
also in Canada.
Many Portlanders, including police, experienced fliers,
and three newspaper men, declared they saw silvery discs
undulating over Portland.
Describing what they saw as flat, translucent plates 12
to 15 inches in diameter, several Port Huron, Mich. residents
reported seeing the "saucers" near Sarnia.
Farmers in Prince Edward Island claimed to have seen more
of the mysterious discs and earlier this week, four Summerside
residents reported seeing one of them.
At Seattle, Frank Ryman, Coast Guard yeoman, said he took
a picture of what some residents north of Seattle thought
was a flying disc. The photograph showed a pinhead-size
light spot against the dark evening sky.
Dr. M. K. Leisy, a junior interne at the Pennsylvania Hospital
for mental diseases, and other persons in the western section
of Philadelphia, reported seeing strange craft in the skies
last night.
"It
was something round with a luminous halo about it,"
Dr. Leisy declared. "It was not shiny itself, but dark
in color and seemed to be propelled by whirling winds."
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Describes
Discs
PORT HURON, Mich., July 5 - (AP) - Mysterious "flying
saucers" were sighted last night by several residents
southwest of Port Huron, who described them as flat and
translucent, 12 to 15 inches in diameter, criss-crossing
the sky and moving northward.
"They
definitely were not fireworks," said one witness.
Mrs. John R. Warner declared "some of them moved slowly
and others sailed out of the horizon, hesitated and then
whizzed on. Lights which shone from them occasionally blinked
off."
This was the first time the "flying saucers" had
been reported over the Michigan area.
Port
Huron is across the St. Clair River from Sarnia.
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Sudbury,
Ontario, DAILY STAR, 5 July 1947, page 2
PLANE
CREW SIGHTS FLOCK OF STRANGE 'FLYING SAUCERS'
Boise, Idaho, July 5 (AP) - The entire crew of a westbound
Boise-to-Seattle United Air Lines plane reported they had
seen nine flying discs near the airline's route over Emmett,
Idaho.
The incident was one of several reported from various parts
of the United States saying the flying objects had been
seen. In Seattle, a United States coast guardsman said he
photographed one of them. Two policemen in Portland, Ore.,
also reported seeing the discs and a New Orleans saleswoman
said she saw one.
Capt. E. J. Smith said his co-pilot, Ralph Stevens, blinked
the transport's lights in the belief the discs were other
aircraft.
Smith said it was eight minutes after takeoff from Boise
that Stevens and himself saw discs, flying what appeared
to be a "loose formation."
They called Marty Morrow, stewardess, to the cockpit to
verify that they were actually seeing the discs, said Smith,
and she agreed they saw them.
Then they saw four more of the discs, three clustered together,
and a fourth flying "by itself, way off in the distance."
Flying discs have been reported over the Northwest for the
last two weeks.
"The
discs were flat and roundish," they said. "They
definitely were not aircraft. But they were bigger than
aircraft."
Smith and Stevens said they had the objects under observation
for from "10 to 15 minutes" before they disappeared.
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In
Sarnia Area, Too
Port Huron, Mich., July 5 (AP) - Mysterious "flying
saucers" were sighted Friday night by several residents
southwest of Port Huron, who described them as flat and
translucent, 12 to 15 inches in diameter, criss-crossing
the sky and moving northward.
"They
definitely were not fireworks," said one witness.
Mrs. John R. Warner declared, "some of them moved slowly
and others sailed out of the horizon, hesitated and then
whizzed on. Lights which shone from them occasionally blinked
off."
"This
was the first time the flying saucers" had been reported
over the Michigan area.
Port Huron is across the St. Clair river from Sarnia.
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Timmins,
Ontario, DAILY PRESS, 26 July 1948, page 1
Mysterious
'It' Spotted By Flyers
Flying Saucers 'Or Something' In News
Again
ATLANTA, July 26 - (AP) - The flying saucer - or something
- is back again.
Reports from widely-separated sections of the country have
described "it" during the weekend as:
1. A wingless craft, spurting flame "like a Buck Rogers
rocket ship,"
2. An aluminum-covered balloon,
3. An unusually bright light,
4. A ball of fire,
5. A red and blue flame that burst in mid-air,
6. A flash of cherry-red fire,
7. A meteor.
Started Fire
"It"
first was reported by two Eastern Airlines pilots, each
a fighter pilot during the war, who said they encountered
a wingless mystery plane, spurting fire, near Montgomery,
Ala.
Clarence L. McKelvie of Columbus, Ohio, lent credence to
the pilots' report by declaring he had seen "a flash
of cherry-red fire" while a passenger on the plane.
"It"
was an aluminum-covered balloon to observers at Yakima,
Wash., where the police station switchboard was jammed with
excited calls and inquiries.
Same Last Year
It was this way last year when someone said he had seen
a flying saucer whizzing around. Right away, dozens of persons
said they had seen the same thing - or something.
The United States army, as usual, denied any responsibility
and simply said in effect, "don't blame us."
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North
Bay, Ontario, DAILY NUGGET, 23 February 1948, Page 11
Airliner
Is Hit By "Ball of Fire"
LISBON, Portugal, Feb. 23 - (AP) - Crew members of a British
European Airways plane which arrived here from London last
night said their aircraft was hit by a ball of fire in the
air.
The crew members said they saw the flaming sphere hurtling
towards them in the midst of a storm. They said it bounced
off the nose of the plane, then cut a hole in the rudder,
shaking the ship violently.
The passengers didn't see the ball, but felt a bump.
The plane is being repaired before taking off again.
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Kirkland
Lake, Ontario, NORTHERN DAILY NEWS, 21 April 1950, page 9
Now
Bananas Nudge Saucers As Sky Mystery
FORT WORTH - (AP) - Now it's flying bananas!
Ira Maxey, a veteran of 3,600 flying hours in the United
States Air Force, said yesterday he saw six of them Sunday
plus something he believed to be a flying saucer. Moreover,
he took pictures.
"They
weren't moving fast and they appeared to be six or seven
miles away," he said.
He described the six objects as without tails or noise "not
like a saucer but more like a banana." The saucer looked
real enough to him, he said. Maxey said the objects definitely
were some sort of aircraft. The pictures showed they left
vapor trails.
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Kirkland
Lake, Ontario, NORTHERN DAILY NEWS, 29 April 1950, page 2
Airline
Pilot Reports Seeing Flying Saucer
CHICAGO - (AP) - A Trans-World Airlines pilot reported seeing
a "round mass" which "glowed a dull red like
hot steel," as it cruised about a half-mile from his
Chicago bound plane.
"I
used to laugh at all those flying saucer reports but it's
no laughing matter now," said Capt. Robert Adickes.
"I saw one."
Adickes said the object, "20 to 50 feet" in diameter,
overtook his plane bound from Washington to Chicago near
South Bend, Ind. It cruised along a parallel course for
eight minutes, Adickes said. The plane was at 2,000 feet.
Adickes said he turned north in an attempt to get closer.
"It
picked up speed 300 to 400 miles an hour and ran out of
sight right over South Bend," the pilot related.
First Officer Robert Manning confirmed Adickes' account.
Adickes said about half of the 19 passengers aboard also
saw the object.
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Kirkland
Lake, Ontario, NORTHERN DAILY NEWS, 18 July 1952, page 6
Flying
Saucers Seen By Pilots
MIAMI, Fla. (CP) - Two airline pilots reported seeing flying
saucers moving at an estimated 1,000 miles an hour over
Chesapeake Bay Monday night.
They said eight of the saucers, 100 feet in diameter and
about 15 feet thick, glowing like red coals, passed directly
beneath their Pan American Airlines plane, wheeled sharply
and zoomed out of sight.
First Officer W. B. Nash, 35, and First Officer W. H. Fortenberry
"watched the manoeuvre" for about 10 seconds.
Nash said they "had definite outlines - there was nothing
fuzzy about them . . . they were brilliant, far more intense
than ground lights."
He said the plane was flying at 8,000 feet and the objects
passed beneath them at an estimated 2,000 feet, approaching
from the southeast over Newport News.
Nash said he had no doubt in his mind they were missiles
of some kind operating under intelligent control.
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Sault
Ste. Marie, Ontario, DAILY STAR, 20 September 1952, Page 1
FLYING
SAUCER ENTERS GIANT NATO OPERATION
TOPCLIFFE, Eng. (Reuters) - A "flying saucer"
entered the eight-country Operation Mainbrace today.
The R. A. F. base here reported to exercise headquarters
that an unidentifiable circular silver object had been sighted
15,000 feet above the airfield.
The object, which appeared five miles behind a jet fighter,
maintained a slow forward speed before descending in a swinging
pendulum motion. Then it began a rotary motion about its
own axis and accelerated at an incredible speed in a westerly
direction but later turned southeast.
It was seen by R.A.F. officers and men on the airfield.
No one could identify it.
The whole incident lasted between 15 and 20 seconds.
One R. A. F. officer said it might have been a smoke ring
caused by one of the jet engines suddenly clearing after
a temporary blockade. The ring might have been caught in
an air current, and with the sun shining on it, it could
have looked like a "flying saucer," he said.
As the second week of the two-week Mainbrace manoeuvres
opened, nearly 30 ships of an amphibious "Blue"
force waited under orders to sail for North Jutland. The
ships are carrying U.S. Marines who will make an unopposed
assault landing there to strengthen land forces opposing
an imaginary "Orange" invader from the east.
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Sudbury,
Ontario, DAILY STAR, 22 January 1953, page 2
Radar,
Pilots See 'Saucers' Off Red-Held Kurile Islands
U.S. AIR BASE, Japan (AP) - Mysterious flying objects -
"rotating clusters of red, white and green lights"
- have been sighted over northern Japan by United States
airmen, the air force disclosed today.
Intelligence reports placed the sightings close to Russian
territory in the Kurile islands and Sakhalin. They added:
"There
are too many indications of the presence of something .
. . to be considered an observation of nothing." And
they discounted the possibility the sighted objects were
mere "reflections of light."
Col. Curtis R. Low, commander of the northern division of
the Japanese air defence force, said the flying clusters
were seen by fighter pilots and ground personnel and were
tracked on radar.
The reports were similar to those describing "flying
saucers" in the U.S. One said the lights appeared to
hang motionless at times, and at other times disappeared
with blinding speed.
Sightings were made by many persons at many points over
northern Japan last Dec. 29. On Jan. 9, a rotating cluster
was spotted by two fighter pilots and was tracked on radar.
The sightings occurred over the frozen, ice-locked reaches
of northern Japan, a land tense with continued air harassment
by near-flying Russian fighter planes.
Russian territory in the Kurile islands is only 4½
miles northeast of Hokkaido, Japan's northernmost island.
The Russian island of Sakhalin is only 30 miles north of
Hokkaido. The Reds have dozens of air bases on Sakhalin
and the Kuriles.
The clusters were seen Dec. 29 by two crew members of an
F-94 interceptor for about 40 minutes, by two crew members
of a B-26 bomber for five to seven minutes, and by five
different airmen on the ground, intelligence said. They
were also seen by a pilot who tried to get close to one.
The five ground observers said the objects "were circular
ferris wheel disc types with rotational red, green white
lights."
Intelligence said the ground observers watched the objects
"for varying times, ranging from 30 minutes to three
hours."
The air force said a rotating cluster Jan. 9 near an air
base in northern Honshu "was observed visually by a
pilot of an F-94 jet interceptor for approximately one minute
. . . Radar contact for approximately two minutes was verified
by both members of the crew."
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North
Bay, Ontario, DAILY NUGGET, 27 January 1953, Page 1
8-Inch
"Saucer" Made Pass at Jet
U.S. AIR BASE, Northern Japan (AP) - The U.S. Air Force
today reported a small, metallic, disk-shaped object made
a controlled, sweeping pass at an American jet fighter-bomber
and was observed at very close range by another pilot.
The report, from air force intelligence files, said the
sighting was made over northern Japan at 11:20 a.m. March
29, 1952, by Lieut. David C. Brigham.
It was a bright, cloudless day. Brigham said he had a very
good look at the object from about 30 to 50 feet for about
10 seconds.
The pilot described it as "about eight inches in diameter,
very thin, round, and as shiny as chromium; had no apparent
projections and left no exhaust trails or vapor trails."
He said it caught up with an F-84 Thunderjet, hovered a
few moments and then shot out of sight. The F-84 pilot,
whose name was not revealed, did not see it. It was the
second disclosure in a week by air force intelligence of
mysterious flying objects over northern Japan near the Russian-Siberia
area.
On Jan. 21, the air force disclosed that "rotating
clusters of red, white and green lights" had been sighted
over northern Japan by American airmen.
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Sault
Ste. Marie, Ontario, DAILY STAR, 29 January 1953, Page 21
Korea
Reports Seem Truthful
Saucers Real? Boss Says Yes
VANCOUVER (CP) - Flying saucers no longer are a joke to
Bill Boss, Canadian Press war correspondent.
Back from Korea, he said in an interview Wednesday, that
he is impressed with the reports of fighter-bomber pilots
telling of flying saucers, disk clusters "or whatever
they are called."
Boss told of reports from "seven independent"
pilots on the same day, Jan. 9.
"There
is more to this than we all thought," he said. "I
think the story of the disks was the most significant to
come out of Japan."
The evidence of the pilots, two of whom "locked"
with the objects, "is too strong to be dismissed."
One disk kept its distance from the 700-mile-an-hour jet
in a straight line and then, drew away.
"It
must have had a multiple of the speed of sound to do that,"
said Boss.
The sky clusters were always reported out from the Russian-held
island of Sakhalin or the Russian-held mainland.
"Possibly,
it is significant that saucer stories always appear over
Western places of strategic interest, like northern Japan
or Texas, but never where satellite forces are committed."
"It
looks like a Russian experiment?" a reporter asked.
"It
looks like a Russian accomplishment," Boss replied.
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North
Bay, Ontario, DAILY NUGGET, 18 December 1953, Page 1
Looked
Like a Robot
Swedish Pilot Spots Disc Hitting "Colossal
Speeds"
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - A veteran Swedish pilot reported sighting
a "symmetrical metal object" travelling at a "colossal
speed" over southern Sweden Thursday.
The pilot's statement was released by the Swedish defence
staff which said it was making a thorough investigation
of the report.
The pilot who fought during the Second World War with the
RAF was Capt. Ulf Christiernsson.
He said he saw the object while flying his DC-3 airliner
at about 6,500 feet over Haessleholm. Visibility was good.
"As
I got nearer, I saw it was completely a symmetrical metal
object. It is difficult to find words to describe something
one has not seen before, but it looked like a robot."
Capt. Christiernsson said he was absolutely sure it was
neither a meteor nor any other sort of celestial body.
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Timmins,
Ontario, DAILY PRESS, 6 July 1954, page ? - Editorial
Flying
"Objects" Intrigue Veteran Canadian Airman
Something new in flying "objects" has been reported
by a veteran Canadian pilot. Francis Lehman Boyd of Fillmore,
Sask., said he and fellow crew members of a British airliner
observed a "mother" ship and six satellites craft
for 20 minutes last Wednesday over the Atlantic near Labrador.
Mr. Boyd's experience may revive some of those flying saucer
stories of recent years. Few people had much faith in them,
and even those who had observed the phenomena could hardly
believe what they had seen. And more than one scientist
tried to debunk the "objects" by describing them
as meteors or some freak of the weather.
But the veteran pilot's story sounds convincing. He said
the things, whatever they were, were intelligently controlled
and manoeuvred. And he did not think any science on this
planet could produce them.
There was one large ship which "changed shape from
time to time" and six smaller craft moving around it.
Boyd and his friends had a perfect view. They watched the
objects for 18 minutes during which they travelled about
80 miles and all crew members were called to confirm the
sight.
Mr. Boyd could rightfully be described as an "expert"
witness. He has been trained to observe the sky about him,
and he could hardly be fooled off as a crackpot whose eyes
had deceived him.
Mr. Boyd's experience is naturally intriguing to most of
us. Many people will wonder whether one of the big powers
has a new type of aircraft up its sleeve. We have heard
and read about flying saucers and "secret weapons"
about which no one in authority will speak. Boyd may have
had his peek at one of these secrets.
But Mr. Boyd's own surmise that these "ships"
had come from some other planet sounds more interesting.
If there were "people" aboard, did they come to
scout us? Were they friendly or hostile? If they know about
us and our way of life, do they hold us in contempt for
our wars, our atomic bombs and our general progress on the
ladder of civilization?
If they are friendly and have a civilization superior to
ours, we would welcome them as visitors. Perhaps they could
tell us a few helpful things that may save us trouble in
the future. Perhaps they have had their own atomic bomb
wars and could tell us what would actually happen if we
started to drop such death-dealing objects.
Mr. Boyd's experience could set us all thinking and wondering
about the "visitors" who did not land.
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Sudbury,
Ontario, DAILY STAR, 24 September 1959, page 1
RCAF
Confirms Pilot's Report Of Rocket Ship
By THE CANADIAN PRESS
Reports from both sides of the Atlantic told Wednesday of
a strange flying object seen off the coast of Labrador Tuesday
night.
The pilot of a Pan American jet airliner said he thought
it might have been a space rocket. An RCAF report described
it as "glowing red and with a vertical tail."
Both sightings lasted 30 seconds, and were located about
130 miles east of Labrador.
Capt. Howard Cone was quoted by a Pan American spokesman
in London as saying the airliner was at 2,000 feet when
the object was sighted moving from south to north "at
tremendous speed."
The RCAF report, filed to air defence command at St. Hubert,
Que., said the object was moving in a north-to-south direction,
exactly opposite from the Pan American sighting.
A United States missile base in Maine said there were no
Snark missile firings which would account for the sighting.
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Sudbury,
Ontario, STAR, 9 August 1962, page 1
Mystery
Object Seen in Flight Of X-15 Plane
MUROC, Calif. (AP) - Space agency officials released photographs
of a mysterious hand-sized object seen tumbling above the
X-15 rocket plane as it streaked to a record 314,750-foot
altitude, last July 17.
They said they could not identify or explain the object's
presence in space.
The pictures were released Wednesday after air force Maj.
Robert Rushworth completed a routine X-15 flight to 90,000
feet and told reporters he saw bits of insulation floating
between the twin panes of the rocket plane's windshield.
The photographs, taken by a movie camera in the tail of
the X-15, show a grey-white object above and behind the
spacecraft. They were taken as the plane, piloted by air
force Maj. Robert White, roared upward to 270,000 feet on
his way to the record.
Officials said they could not positively identify the photographed
object as the one seen by White. Rushworth added that he
did not believe the particles he saw were the same as the
one White reported.
Rushworth was positive the particles were bits of insulating
material.
"They
were not outside the plane, as Maj. White said the larger
object was," he said.
None of the 15 or 20 particles, Rushworth said, was larger
than the end of a cigarette.
The insulating material protects the glass windshield from
extreme heat caused by air friction.
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Sault
Ste. Marie, Ontario, DAILY STAR, 28 April 1966, Page 29
Flying
Object Gets Governor's Pursuit
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - Governor Haydon Burns of Florida
saw a funny thing on his way to the capital - a UFO.
The governor ordered his airplane pilots to give chase,
but the unidentified flying object's lights winked out and
it disappeared - upward bound - as Burns' Convair bore down
on it.
So says Burns, his assistant, a highway patrol captain and
four newspaper men who were flying with the governor to
Tallahassee from a re-election campaign session at Orlando
Monday night. The sighting was at 6,000 feet over Ocala.
"I
much prefer to let the newspaper representatives be quoted,"
he said Tuesday. "I will confirm that I saw the same
unidentified flying object they have alluded to in their
writings."
Don Meiklejohn of The Times placed the sighting at 9:52
p.m. EDT Monday and said "I first became aware of something
when Governor Burns shouted 'It's a UFO!'"
Meiklejohn's timecheck was about 90 minutes after the flash
of a vivid fireball, described by scientists as a meteor,
excited thousands from the Carolinas to Toronto and as far
west as Ohio.
BURNS
ORDERS CHASE
"Governor
Burns ordered the pilots to 'turn into it'. The plane turned
to the right and as it did, the light pulled ahead quickly
and began to rise steeply. It disappeared, as one of the
pilots said, 'like someone turned off the juice.'"
Bill Mansfield of The Herald said the lights "generally
followed the flight of the governor's plane, although there
were some definite changes of brightness."
Burns' executive assistant, Frank Stockton, estimated the
distance the lights travelled with the plane as "at
least 40 miles."
Co-pilot Herb Bates said he radioed air traffic control
at Miami and was told it had the Burns plane on radar, but
nothing resembling the object as Bates described it.
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Sudbury,
Ontario, STAR, 11 January 1967, page 1
CPA
Crew See Flying Saucer During Flight
VANCOUVER (CP) - Five members of a Canadian Pacific Airlines
DC-8 crew never believed before, but they believe in flying
saucers now.
The crew reported Tuesday they saw one on a recent flight
from Lima, Peru, to Mexico City, and couldn't explain it
away.
"We
tried to discredit the thing from beginning to end, but
it couldn't be anything we could think of," said Capt.
Robert Millbank of suburban Burnaby.
He said he saw two beams of light during the Dec. 29 flight.
Second officer John Dennis Dahl of White Rock, B.C., navigator
Mike Mole of Mexico City, purser Joseph Lugs of Vancouver
and pilot trainee Wolfgang Poepperl of Richmond gathered
to watch the object.
"It
was getting bigger all the time, and at one point shot out
a trail of sparks like a rocket," Capt. Millbank said.
"Then
it seemed to be getting closer and we could see a string
of lights between two white lights."
"It
then levelled off at our left wing-tip and, in the full
moon, we could see a shape between the two lights which
appeared thicker in the middle."
He said the object remained a couple of minutes then disappeared
behind the big passenger plane. He said he filed a report
in Mexico City after the flight.
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Sudbury,
Ontario, STAR, 4 February 1985, page 3
Crew
and passengers reported seeing UFO
MOSCOW (AP) - Amazed crew and passengers on a Soviet airliner
say they saw a star-like unidentified flying object beam
a thin ray on the ground, suddenly turn its dazzling light
on the aircraft and - just as abruptly - become a green
cloud that "escorted" the plane, a newspaper reports.
Gennady Lazurin, co-pilot of the Aeroflot flight, told an
air controller in Minsk about the sighting and was told
at first that nothing could be seen on ground radar, the
newspaper Trud reported Wednesday.
"Oh
well, they'll be saying we're not normal," Lazurin
was quoted as saying.
But then, ground control "registered splashes on its
screens in the same part of air space," Trud said.
The date of the flight was not given.
Nikolai Zheltukhin, a corresponding member of the Soviet
Academy of Sciences and deputy chairman of a state commission
on unexplained phenomena, told Trud the occurrence "is
indeed of interest, although the commission already knows
of similar cases."
"That
the object reversed course instantaneously and reached the
ground with a ray of light of unusual intensity from a very
high altitude is undoubtedly abnormal," Zheltukhin
was quoted as saying.
The plane was flying northwest from the Georgian capital
of Tbilisi to Tallinn in Estonia and was approaching Minsk
when "what appeared to be a large, unblinking star
suddenly shed a thin ray of light which fell plumb down
on the ground" from an altitude of 40 to 48 kilometres,
the newspaper said.
PROVIDES
VIEW
All four crew members reported that they "could see
distinctly everything down in the sector of the ground illuminated
by the cone-shaped shaft of light - the houses and the roads,"
the newspaper said.
It said the ray suddenly focused on the plane.
"The
pilots saw a dazzling white spot surrounded by concentric
colored rings," Trud said.
The unidentified flying object then came toward the airliner
"at flashing speed," leaving a green cloud in
its wake and hovered next to the plane at an altitude of
10,000 metres for the rest of the flight "like an honorary
escort," the newspaper quoted one of the pilots as
saying.
Nervous passengers asked the flight attendant what was happening.
"Tell
them it is some sort of cloud," the captain, Igor Cherkashin
was reported to have replied. "Say the yellow thing
is a reflection of city lights, the green thing of polar
lights."
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Sudbury,
Ontario, STAR, 23 May 1986, page 2
Chased
UFOs
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) Multicolored UFOs the size of ping-pong
balls were seen over Brazil and fighter jets were sent to
chase them, the air force minister said. The objects "saturated
our radar system," Brig.-Gen. Otavio Moreira Lima said.
They were reported flying at about 1,350 kilometres an hour
and the fighters tracked them for almost three hours before
turning back when they started to run out of fuel. "I
can't give an explanation for this because we don't have
any," Moreira Lima said.
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Sudbury,
Ontario, STAR, 5 January 1987, page 19
U.S.
officials reopen their probe into pilot's report of UFO
incident
ANCHORAGE (AP) - The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration
is reopening its investigation into an incident in which
an apparent UFO dogged a Japan Air Lines cargo jet across
Alaska's night sky for almost an hour last November.
"We
looked at it about six weeks ago, but since then we've gotten
a lot of public interest, so we went back and reinterviewed
the pilot," FAA spokesman Paul Steucke said Sunday.
The veteran pilot, Kenji Terauchi, told investigators that
the large UFO showed up on his cockpit weather radar. But
images on military radar screens at the time were dismissed
as "clutter," and a blip that showed up on FAA
screens was analysed as a coincidental "split image"
of the aircraft, Steucke said.
Radar tapes, transcribed interviews and radio messages are
to be sent to the FAA in Washington, D.C., later this week
for review, Steucke said.
A JAL spokesman said Sunday that Terauchi was on a flight
to Europe and was unavailable.
As Flight 1628 - a Boeing 747 - flew at 35,000 feet into
Alaska from Canada, just northeast of Fort Yukon, Terauchi
told investigators he saw three lights 13 kilometres in
front of his aircraft.
The pilot reported the lights were yellow, amber and green,
Steucke said, but not red, the international color for aircraft
beacons.
"He
flew for about six minutes before he decided to report anything,"
Steucke said. "I can't say I blame him for that."
Terauchi radioed Anchorage FAA air controllers, who direct
all aircraft traffic in the state, except for planes near
airports, Steucke said. Fairbanks controllers checked their
screens but saw only Flight 1628, Steucke said.
The pilot reported the object was staying with him and controllers
told him to take any evasive action needed. Terauchi decreased
altitude to 31,000 feet, but the lights went down with him
"in formation," Steucke said.
South of Fairbanks, Terauchi turned the plane in a complete
circle to see if the lights would follow.
"That
was pretty clever," Steucke said. "It allowed
him to eliminate any natural phenomenon which would have
stayed stationary."
The lights stayed with the cargo jet, and moved to its left
side, the pilot told the FAA.
The lights vanished, heading east, when the JAL jet was
about 130 kilometres north of Anchorage, Steucke said.
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Sudbury,
Ontario, STAR, 27 September 1997, page A2
UFO
nearly hit plane - Swissair
ZURICH, Switzerland (AP) - An unidentified, wingless object
travelling at high speed passed dangerously close to a Swissair
jetliner between Philadelphia and Boston, the airline said
Friday.
The pilot and copilot gave U.S. investigators different
descriptions of the object that passed about 45 metres from
the Boeing 747 after it had taken off from Philadelphia
on Aug. 9.
The pilot told the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board
that the object was long and wingless, but the copilot said
it was more spherical, Swissair spokesman Erwin Schaerer
said.
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clippings courtesy of The Sault Star, The Timmins Daily
Press, The Kirkland Lake Northern Daily News, The North
Bay Nugget and The Sudbury Star.
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