 Category 11 Case Directory SIGHTINGS FROM AIRCRAFT Preliminary Rating: 5 |
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Crew
Of R5-D Witness Disc Shoot Vertically
Aug. 6, 1952
Port Lyautey, French Morocco
Aug. 6, 1952
Port Lyautey, French Morocco
| 7:51 p.m. Duration ? aircraft R5-D French Morocco |
Military 3 + observers No EMI No radar contact |
| Brad Sparks: Aug. 6-7 [7?], 1952; Port Lyautey [Mina Hassam Tani?], French Morocco (BBU) 7:51 p.m. Control tower personnel and three USN officer pilots [one named Dobos?] while flying R5-D saw a brilliant white disc-shaped luminous object with red blinking light, leaving a smoke trail, traveling straight and level at high speed then shot up vertically to 15,000 ft at high speed, then hovered, descended. When aircraft tried to climb towards object it started moving at high speed and chase was abandoned. (Hynek-CUFOS re-eval; Jan Aldrich; FUFOR Index) Detailed reports and documents reports/520807portlyautey_report.htm (Dan Wilson) |