Depiction of UFO
Newfoundland, Canada - 1951
On February 10, a US Navy flight, Atlantic -
Continental Air Transport Squadron one, located at USN Air Station, Patuxent
River, Maryland, was out of Keflavik, Iceland at 49-50 degrees north latitude
and 50-03 degrees west longitude about 150 kilometers [90 miles] west of
Gander, Newfoundland out over the Atlantic Ocean.
The aircraft was probably bound for Gander to refuel
judging by its position and course of 230 degrees true, though the report does
not mention this.
US Naval Reserve Lieutenant Graham Bethune, co-pilot
of Flight 125, was occupying the captain's seat on the left side of the cockpit
in the passenger plane when he first sighted a huge object [at least] 300 feet
in diameter on a near collision course with their aircraft.
The co-pilot stated in his official report,... I
observed a glow of light below the horizon about 1,000 to 1,500 feet [330-470
meters] above the water. We both [the pilot as well] observed its course and
motion for about 4 or 5 minutes before calling it to the attention of the other
crew members...
Suddenly its angle of attack changed.
Its altitude and size increased as though its speed
was in excess of 1,000 miles [1,670 kilometers] per hour. It closed in so fast
that the first feeling was we would collide in midair.
At this time, its angle changed and the color changed.
It then [appeared] definitely circular and reddish orange on its perimeter. It
reversed its course and tripled its speed until it was last seen disappearing
over the horizon.
The co-pilot's report goes on to say that the object
came within five miles of their aircraft which was borne out by radar evidence
of the encounter because the object had been tracked by DEW Line Ground Radar
at the base in Goose Bay, Labrador.
Submitted by Don Ledger.
Source:
GR+V From Dominique Weinstein's Aircraft/UFO
Encounters Catalogue - Special Report #2 Canadian East
Coast Cases.
Ref: Above Top Secret, Timothy Goode-1988
*U* UFO Database, Larry Hatch
Maj. Donald E. Keyhoe:
When the plane landed, the entire crew was interrogated
by AF Intelligence officers. At their destination, Patuxent Naval Air Station
in Maryland, the pilot and the rest were questioned again by Naval Intelligence
and required to sign full reports.
Later, a government scientist (supposedly from the
CIA) confidentially showed the pilot secret UFO photos - one portraying a disc
like the one over the Atlantic.
In a final interview, the commander was interviewed by
Air Technical Intelligence officers at Wright-Patterson AFB. But none of the
Navy or Air Force men, or the government scientist, would answer any questions
about the UFOs.
Source: Aliens From Space, 96
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