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Capital
Airlines Pilots Sees Acrobatic UFO
Nov. 14, 1956
SE of Jackson, Alabama
Nov. 14, 1956
SE of Jackson, Alabama
| 10:10 p.m. local Duration 2 mins? aircraft Viscount United States |
Commercial 2 observer No EMI No radar contact |
| Brad Sparks: Nov. 14, 1956; SE of Jackson, Alabama (BBU)
10:10-10:12 p.m. Capital Airlines Flight 77 pilot Capt. W. J. Hull with
3 million miles and 17 years' flight experience and author of anti-UFO
skeptical article "The Obituary of the Flying Saucer" in The Airline
Pilot magazine (Sept. 1953), with copilot FO Peter MacIntosh were
flying from New York to Mobile, Ala., in a Viscount airliner at 300 mph
descending at 10,000 ft, when they saw a brilliant bluish-white light
(mag. -7) descend in a steep downward angle diagonally (about 45°?)
from left to right from WSW at azimuth 315° to dead ahead SSW at
205° azimuth 30°-40° elevation where it stopped at the same
or slightly higher altitude. Hull radioed Bates tower near Mobile to
look for object, then at that moment the object began a series of
maneuvers for 30 secs, rising and falling, darting back and forth,
instant 90° turns, then hovered motionless again at same/slightly
higher level. When Bates field radioed again the object began another
series of "crazy gyrations, lazy 8's, square chandelles" with
undulating motion, then shot out to the S over the Gulf of Mexico in a
steep climb at "fantastic speed" until it disappeared. (Condon
Committee Unexplained case, CR pp. 127-9; Hynek-CUFOS Willy Smith
files; NARCAP; UFOE, Detailed reports and documents reports/561114jackson_report.htm (Dan Wilson) |