![]() Category 11 Case Directory SIGHTINGS FROM AIRCRAFT Preliminary Rating: 5 |
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help and cooperation of the original compiler
of AIRCAT, Dr. Richard Haines, and other
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sightings from aircraft with detailed
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Projects SIGN, GRUDGE & BLUE BOOK. |
4:33 a.m. AST Duration ??? aircraft DC-6A United States |
Commercial 3 observers No EMI No radar contact |
Dan Wilson:
March 9, 1957; 350 miles NE of Jacksonville,
Florida (BB)
At 4:33 a.m. AST, Captain Matthew Van Winkle
piloting a Pan American World Airways DC-6A airliner
at a point approximately 350 miles NE of
Jacksonville, Florida, observed a "burning greenish
white round object" to the right of the aircraft
that appeared to be on a collision course. Van
Winkle then pulled the plane upward in a climb to
avoid the object. This sudden maneuver caused some
of the passengers to be thrown out of their seats
resulting in some injuries. Co-pilot Dion W. Taylor
and flight engineer John Washuta had observed the
object also. The object according to the flight
engineer, was a high intensity light to the right of
the aircraft which appeared to stand still for
approximately four seconds until it was lost to
sight during the evasive action. (BB files)
Fran Ridge:
Something surely happened here. This incident was
covered briefly in "UFOs and Government", pp.245-6.
The "joker" in this situation is the possibility of
an off-course missile test combined with a slightly
off-course Pilot Van Winkle. Note that in the USAF
docs that they are concerned about this too. And
note the ominous word "classified" applied despite
trying to wave this off as a fireball. Original
source: NICAP UFOE, V, over a hundred documents (111
to be exact) were located by Dan Wilson and made
into two pdf files by Bill Schroeder. When the DC-6A
took evasive action, that alone terminated what
could have been a longer experience.
Detailed reports and documents reports/570309jacksonville_report.htm [111 documents](Dan Wilson & Bill Schroeder) |