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Salt Lake City, Utah Eastern Holland Waldo J, Harris, several others Royal Dutch Air Force pilot in F-86 Description Disc hovered, wobbled, moved away when pursued. [Section I] UFO sighted, confirmed by radar, fled when pur- sued. [Section X] eh ~ ——— rEEEEEEEeee England Airlines Capt. Gordon Pendleton, Irish International Globular UFO with antenna-like projections, streaked below his Viscount. [Section X] -_ Or ee M 5-22-62 Argentina 8-2-62 Liberal, Kans. 12-22-62 Buenos Aires, Argentina Several Navy pilots Capt. Jack Metzker, Central Airlines; air- port observers Pilots of Panagra and Aerolineas Argentina Series of sightings by flight of aircraft. [Section XII, Argentine chronology] Brilliant light source, hovered, streaked west; airport alerted, also saw UFOs. [29 Bright circular UFO observed near end of Ezeiza Airport runway, took off rapidly. [Section “q airlines; control tower operators Pp 2-5-63 nr Washington, D.C. senger M 3-11-63 Hawaii pilots THE PATTERNS What professional and private pilots have seen is readily classifiable into three general types of UFO phenomena (corre- sponding very well with the Air Force Project Grudge Report; see Section XII): * Geometrical objects, generally circular (disc, oval, el- lipse) * Maneuvering or gyrating lights * Cigar-shaped or rocket-like objects (Since military pilot sightings are covered in previous sections, they will not be detailed here. Ingeneral, they correspond to non- military reports, so the latter are discussed in this section as typical pilot sightings.) Geometrical Objects The earliest recorded UFO sighting by anairline pilot, during the initial flurry of sightings in the United States, was the report by Capt. E. J, Smith, United Airlines, July 4, 1947. Flying a DC-3 from Boise, Idaho, to Portland, Oregon, Captain Smith and his crew observed two separate groups of flat round objects ahead, silhouetted against the sunset. The UFOs were visible for about 10 minutes over a distance of about 45 miles, opening and closing formation, In the second group of UFOs, three operated close together, and a fourth was off to one side by itself. (31] Since that date, dozens of pilotsonall the major airlines have reported UFOs. Private pilots, also, have witnessed typical geometrical UFOs. During July 1948, in Pasco, Washington, DonNewman (former Air Force pilot) watched a disc-shaped UFO with a dome on top maneuvering over the city at 1:00 p.m. ‘‘The exterior finish appeared to be spun or brushed aluminum,’’ Newman said in his report to NICAP. The UFO alternately slowed and accelerated rapidly, diving, and climbing over the area. [32] On March 18, 1950, Robert Fisher was flying his family from Chicago to Keokuk, Iowa. Near Bradford, Tllinois, at 8:40 a.m., he spotted an oval, metallic-appearing disc ahead and slightly to the left of his Bonanza NC 505B. The UFO was moving on a course of about 120 degreestrue. (Fisher was flying a southwesterly course, approximately 225 degrees.) The UFO shone in the sunlight, but when it flew below an overcast continued to glow, indicating that it was self-illuminated. It quickly moved off into the distance, at a speed estimated to be 600 to 1,000 mph. [33] Near Goshen, Indiana, April 27, 1950, a bright orange-red dise paced a Trans World Airways DC-3, which was piloted by Capts. Robert Adickes and Robert F. Manning. As the crew and many passengers watched, the UFO pulled alongside the plane. It looked ‘‘like a big red wheel rolling along.’’ Each time the pilot moved toward the object, it moved away as if controlled by repulse radar. When the pilot turned, the disc dove (presenting an edge-on view) and sped off to the north toward South Bend. [34] A month later (May 29), an American Airlines plane departed Washington, D. C., enroute south over Virginia. About 9:30 p.m., First Officer Bill Gates noticed a light approaching the airliner Car! Chambers, pas- Air National Guard jet Pulsating yellow-white light source, maneuvered around plane. Rocket- like UFO sped over high above jets, which were at 40,000 feet. [30] head-on and notified Capt. Willis T. Sperry. Flight Engineer Robert Arnholt also witnessed what followed. An unidentified object with a brilliant bluish light on the leading edge neared, and seemed to stop. Suddenly it darted tothe left of the plane, stopped for a few seconds, then circled around to the right. There it was silhouetted against the moon, revealing a torpedo-shaped or narrow elliptical body. Finally the UFO sped away to the east. Captain Sperry called the speed ‘‘fantastic,’’? and said it was ‘without a doubt beyond the limits of any known aircraft speeds.”’ [35] A ‘‘perfectly round disc’’ hovering above the Hanford atomic plant, Richland, Washington, was observed by four veteran pilots July 5, 1952. The four Conner Airlines pilots were interviewed by United Press when they landed in Denver, Colorado, and their story was put on the newswires that day. Capt. John Baldwin (former Air Force pilot, with 7000 hours airline pilot experience at the time) said he was flying near the Hanford atomic plant at about 9000 feet. The UFO was noticed above the plane about 6:00 a.m. It was ‘‘just below a deck of wispy clouds about 10,000 to 15,000 feet directly above us,” Baldwin said. He described it as ‘‘a perfectly round disc, white in color and almost transparent with small vapor trails off it like the tentacles of an octopus.’”’ [ef., September 24, 1959 FAA case below] Capt. George Robertson, D. Shenkel (both former Air Force pilots) and Steven Summers confirmed Baldwin’s report. <All of us have been flying a number of years,’’ Baldwin said, ‘‘and we’ve seen all kinds of clouds and formations, but none of us had ever seen anything like this before.’’ At first, the UFO was hovering. Then it ‘‘seemed to back away’’ and tilt edge-on. ‘‘It became flat, gained speed and then disappeared quickly,’’ Baldwin reported. DISC FORMATION On the evening of July 14, 1952, a Pan American Airways DC-4 airliner, flying at 8,000 feet, was approaching the Norfolk, Virginia, area enroute to Miami. The senior Captain was back in the cabin and Capt. William B. Nash, temporarily acting as First Officer, was at the controls. In the righthand cockpit seat was Second Officer William Fortenberry. The night was clear and visibility unlimited. Norfolk lay about 20 miles ahead, on the plane’s course of 200 degrees magnetic. Offto the right were the lights of Newport News. About 8:10 p.m. EST, both men noticed a red brilliance in the sky, apparently beyond and to the east of Newport News. The light quickly resolved itself into sixbright objects streaking toward the plane, at lower altitude. The UFOs were fiery red. ‘‘Their Shape was clearly outlined and evidently circular,’’? Captain Nash stated. <‘‘The edges were well-defined, not phosphorescent or fuzzy in the least.’’ The upper surfaces were glowing red-orange. Within seconds, ‘‘we could observe that they were holding a narrow echelon formation--a stepped-up line tilted slightly to our right, with the leader at the lowest point and each following craft Approved For Release 2001/04/02 : CIA-RDP81R00560R000100010004-0