Pilot Sightings - UFO Casebook
[Pages:64]UNIDENTIFIED AERIAL PHENOMENA EIGHTY YEARS OF PILOT SIGHTINGS
Catalog of Military, Airliner, Private Pilots' Sightings
from 1916 to 2000
February 2001 (6th edition) 1300+ cases
Dominique F. Weinstein NARCAP International Technical Advisor
France
Acknowledgements
I would like to thank Dr Richard F. Haines (NARCAP Chief Scientist), for his advises and his closecooperation, Dr Peter Sturrock and Dr Jacques Vall?e for their help and encouragements, Jean-Jacques Velasco (GEPAN-SEPRA), Gustavo Rodriguez (CEFAA-Chile) and Patrick Leprevost airliner pilot, for his cooperation and expertise.
And: Jan L. Aldrich (Project 1947 / Sign Historical Group), Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos (Fundacion Anomalia - Spain), Don Berliner (FUFOR - USA), Barry Greenwood (UFO Historical Revue - USA), Loren Gross (for the gift of the complete collection of his very interesting series : UFOs a history), Larry Hatch (*U* UFO Database - USA ), Richard Hall (FUFOR - USA), Don Ledger (Canada), Marco Orlandi (CISU ? Italy), Joel Mesnard (LDLN -France), Edoardo Russo (CISU) and Ed Stewart.
? Copyright 2001 Dominique Weinstein,
Abbreviations and Codes Table
AB
Air Base (US air force base outside U.S. territory)
AF
Air FORCE
AFB
Air Force Base (US Air Force Base in U.S. territory)
ANG Air National Guard
ARTCC Air Route Traffic Control Center
ATIC Air Technical Intelligence Center
CAA
Civil Aviation Authority
FAA
Federal Aviation Authority
GCI
Ground Control Intercept
GOC Ground Observators corps
NAS
Naval Air Station
NFS
Night Fighter squadron
NORAD North American Air Defense Command
RCAF Royal Canadian Air Force
RAF
Royal Air Force
RNZAF Royal New Zealand Air Force
SAC Strategic Air Command
USAAF United States Army Air Force (before September 1947)
USAF United States Air Force (after September 1947))
USMC US Marine corps
USN
US Navy
ft kph kts mph
feet Kilometer per hour knots (nautical miles) miles per hour (1 mile = 1,604 kilometer )
Aircraft: M : military aircraft, A : airliner, P : private aircraft Radar: AR : Airborne radar, GR : Ground radar, RO : Radar only Codes: G : ground witnesses, X : more than one plane involved, E: effects on plane (electromagnetic effects, engine failed, ...etc) Time: LT : Local Time, ZT : Zulu Time (Greenwich Meridian Time) Sources: See list of sources with code number at the end of the report
Dedicated to the late Captain Edward J. Ruppelt,
"...Of these (UFO) reports, the radar-visual sightings are the most convincing. When a ground radar picks up a UFO target and a ground observer sees a light where the radar target is located, then a jet interceptor is scrambled to intercept the UFO and the pilot also sees the light and gets a radar lock only to have the UFO almost impudently outdistance him, there is no simple answer..."
Edward J. Ruppelt, USAF Capt.,1956
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Introduction
For over fifty years, both civilian and military pilots have seen Unidentified Aerial Phenomena1 (UAP), also commonly called Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs). This catalogue is a compilation of more than 1300+ such sightings, by military pilots, private pilots and airliners crews.
These cases are special for several reasons. Training and experience make pilots and crews much more reliable witnesses than others. They are used to unusual meteorological phenomenons. They have the added advantage of being able to approach the phenomenon. Sometimes they can even overfly the object, observing it between themselves and the earth below. Military pilots are trained to estimate distances, shapes and speed of flying machines.
Sometimes, pilots' sightings are confirmed by radar detection, observers on the ground (control tower personnel, Ground Observer Corps, civilians,..) or other pilots in flight. In some cases electro -magnetic effects were noted (radios, radar, compasses, engines, ...). In a few rare cases the pilot or crew felt physical effects like heat, or blinding light.
This catalog contains 1305 cases: 606 Military aircraft cases, 444 Airliners cases, 193 private light planes (19 multiple aircraft, 43 cases with no mention of type of aircraft). Among the 1305 cases, 702 are North American.
A detailed study and a database of the 200 radar-cases in this catalog (about 15%) is currently under development at the French Space Agency (CNES) in France, as a SEPRA project led by Jean-Jacques Velasco. An initial evaluation of the most detailed radar-visual cases shows that the technical data indicated by radar (sizes, speeds, distances, maneuvers, locations) are quite close to those estimated by pilots.
Another study of the 57 cases involving electro -magnetic effects on th e aircraft (about 4%) of this catalog is under development with Dr Richard F. Haines for the National Aviation Reporting Center on Anomalous Phenomena (NARCAP)2
Dominique Weinstein Paris, February 3, 2001
1 An unidentified aerial phenomenon (UAP) is the visual stimulus that provokes a sighting report of an object or light seen in the sky, the appearance and/or flight dynamics of which do not suggest a logical, conventional flying object and which remains unidentified after close scrutinity of all available evidence by persons who are technically capable of making both a full technical identification as well as a common-sense identification, if one is possible. (Dr Richard F. Haines 1980) 2 the National Aviation Reporting Center on Anomalous Phenomena (NARCAP), PO Box 140, Boulder Creek, California 95006.
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updated : 04/09/2000
DATE
TIME
COUNTRY
16.01.31 20:45 LT UK
26.01.00 13:00 LT USA
26.09.late 23:00
USA
31.06.10 15:00 LT Tasman Sea
32.00.00 daytime Greenland
33.07.05 night
UK
36.10.10 04:15 LT Italy
37.01.01 12:00 LT USA
42.03.25 midnight Holland
42.06.00
Holland
42 summer
42.11
17:50
Australia France
42.12.09 evening France
43.00.00 night
Atlantic Ocean
43.04.05 09:50
USA
43.05.00
Europe
43.05 or 07
43.10.14
night
Tunisia Germany
43.12.14 night
Italy
43 Late daytime Germany
44.00.00 night
Atlantic Ocean
AIRCRAFT / UAP ENCOUNTERS CATALOG
LOCATION near Rochford Between Wichita, Kansas and Colorado Springs, Colorado Nevada between Australia and New Zealand East coast over Sussex Cape Talamonore Virginia / North Carolina border Zuider See
Tasman Peninsula west coast of France, Bay of Biscay Somme estuary Between USA and England Air Corps Ferrying Command Base, Long Beach, California Above the English Channel
Schweinfurt Naples Central Germany South Atlantic
TYPE OF PLANE AND
UFO DESCRIPTION
WITNESSES
M
one row of lights like lighted windows on a
pilot
railway carriage. It rose and disappeared
?
six "flying manhole covers"
pilot
A DH-4
one cylindrical huge object, wingless. the pilot
an airmail pilot
was forced to land,
?
a "dull grey-white airship" seen in distance
pilot
M RDAF Three Heinkel He.8 seaplanes one hexagonal, flat, aluminium looking object
pilots
followed the plane course.
M 4 Hawker Fury fighters
a huge circular light dropped in the center of
pilots
the aircraft formation. One a/c forced to land
M four italian Idro S.62 bis
one blinding light appeared to shoot short
pilots
flames from its center and flew north.
P A Curtis Wright Sedan
a gondola-shaped object of gun metal color
military pilot
crossed the aircraft's path.
M An RAF bomber
one luminous orange disc
crew
M An RAF bomber (301st Squadron) a bright object moved around the plane
crew
M An RAF aircraft
an object looking like a singular airfoil of
pilot
glistening bronze color with a dome on top
M a military plane (anti-sub. squad.)
a huge object followed and passed the plane
pilot
M An RAF Hurricane fighter
2 bright lights came from the ground, chased
pilot
the plane, then moved away
M A USN PB-2Y5
one single lit orange object flew in formation
pilot + 8 crew members
with the aircraft.
P one BT-13A trainer aircraft
one orange, round object flew alongside in
pilot
formation with the aircraft, then shot away
M An RAF Lancaster night bomber
a huge orange ball, near the sea, stationary
pilot + all crew
M RAF Hurricane (73rd Squadron)
one light
pilot
M several USAAF B-17 bombers
near-collision with a group of luminous disc-
crews (384th Bomber Group)
shaped objects (could be "windows")
M RAF Beaufighter (255th Squadron) dogfight with a bright light which out climbed
pilot
the aircraft.
M one USAAF B-17
one gold sphere, size of a basketball, flew
tail gunner (390th bomb. group.)
around the bomber.
M A military transport
two bright lights came toward the aircraft,
4 pilots
separated, went around, and turned.
Rad CODES ar G X E
SOURCES 03
03
E 03
03
E 03
X E 03
03/37
03
357
X
M290
413 419
366 03
357 03
03/37
03
03
03/37
X
324/357
L338/03
03/37
03
03/37
1
44.02.00 44.03.00 44.03.00 44.04.30 44.06.00 44.06.00 44.08.10 44.10.30
02:30
21:00 00:00 11:00 01:45
44.10.30 21:25
44.11.00
44.11.22 19:00
44.11.22 22:00
44.11.23 22:00
44.11.27 night
44.12.00
44.12.22 17:05
44.12.24 night
44.12
day
or 45.01
45.00.00
45.00.00
45.01.00 night
45.01.12
45.02.13 19:10
45.02.mid 10:00
Australia USA USA Italy Italy Adriatic Sea Sumatra / Ceylan Germany
Germany USA Germany Norway France Germany Austria France Germany Germany Germany Formosa Germany France Germany USA
Bass Strait Yakima, Washington Carlsbad, New Mexico near Anzio Southwest of Florence Northeast of Bari, Italy between Palembang (Sumatra) and Ceylan Munich
Near Cologne Santa Rosa, California Coblenz West-southwest of Trondheim 30 km northeast of Strasbourg Speyer
Haguenau area near Karlsruhe Rhine Valley Munster
Dijon, C?te d'Or between Rastatt and Bishwiller Texas
M a Bristol Beaufort bomber
a dark shape with pulsating lights on its rear
crew
part
?
Seven pebble-shaped bright objects in V
pilot
formation
M a USAAF B-29 bomber
a spherical object moved with sharp turns at
pilot
great speed
M RAF Beaufighter (600th Squadron) one red-orange glow followed the aircraft, doing NR
pilot + radar officer
evasive maneuvers.
M One RAF Beaufighter
one bright red light followed the aircraft, evasive
pilot
actions did not work.
M 3 USAAF P-38 (1st Fighter group) one round silver disc flying at 50,000 ft, stayed
3 pilots
3 mn with the formation of planes
M a USAAF B-29 bomber
a bright red-orange sphere maneuvering
crew
M A USAAF B-17 (419th Bomb
one light blue ball of fire paced aircraft for a
Squad.)
time.
pilot
M One Halifax III (640th Squadron)
one ball of fire followed the aircraft which took
flight engineer and gunner
evasive action.
M
a huge red light which disappeared
pilot
M A USAAF aircraft (422nd NFS)
four or six objects seen, three in line abreast.
pilot
M One RAF aircraft (IX Squadron)
one spherical object followed the plane, made
Flight officer, engineer + gunner
violent acceleration and decceleration.
M a USAAF P-70 fighter (415th NFS) several luminous spheres with pulsating lights
crew
M a USAAF P-70 fighter (415th NFS) a huge orange sphere
crew
M a USAAF B-17 bomber
an amber disc followed the plane
crew
M a USAAF night fighter (415th NFS) two huge orange luminous shapes followed the
pilot
plane at 10.000ft high
M a Beaufighter (415th NFS)
a red ball like object climbed to fighter's
pilot + passenger
altitude, paced the plane, then climbed away
M a P-51 Mustang (109th Tact. Rec. 4 or 5 silvery football-shaped objects
Squad.) pilot
M a Canadian Halifax bomber
a small ball of flame
crew
M One USAAF B-24
one vertical chain of luminous globes in a spiral
radio operator
climbed towards the aircraft.
M a USAAF night fighter (415th NFS) three luminous red and white objects followed
pilot
the plane
M several bomber groups
several foofighters
pilots
M several USAAF fighters (415th NFS) 2 groups of light at 2.300 ft high
pilots
M USAAF C-47 (2nd AF headquarter) a cylindrical shaped object, dull flat grey,
pilot + two passengers
traveled in straight line, 30 ft long
E 321/324 413/419
339
303
03/37
03/37
X
03/37
303/357
03/37
03/37
366 / 405 03
03/37
03/37
303/352/357 405/03
352
303
352/388 405/03
03
03
03
03/37
303
400
X
388
03
2
45.03.00
Europe
45.03.00 midnight Italy
45.03.20 0:45
Germany
45.03.26 11:00
Germany
45.03.26 night
Japan
45.03.27 night
Japan
45.04.03 night
Japan
45.04.03 18:17 ZT Japan
45.04.07 morning North Sea
45.04.18 03:00
Japan
45.04.18 04:15
Japan
45.04.19 01:00
Norway
45.05.03 morning Pacific Ocean
45.05.05 evening Germany
45.05.15 night
Japan
45.05.23 nuit
Japan
45.05.25 morning Atlantic Ocean
45.05.27 14:38 ZT Japan
45.07.00 night
Japan
45.07. mid noon
USA
45.07.1213
45.07.1617
45.07.1617
45.07.1617
night night night night
Japan Japan Japan Japan
Brenner Pass
M a military plane
a white-yellow light, smaller than a basketball,
pilot
approached at great speed
West of Trieste
M One RAF Boston bomber
six spheres looking like red-hot metal followed
pilot + two crew members
the aircraft.
Speyer
M several USAAF fighters
two spheres, one orange and one green
X
pilots (415th NFS)
Ruhr Valley
M One RAF Spitfire XI (541th Squad.) one pink sphere (diameter: 3 ft) passed the
pilot
fighter at about 340 mph.
Iwo Jima
M A military night fighter (549th NFS) several lights followed the plane, made a few AR
crew (3 members)
turns, slight radar returns
Iwo Jima
M A night fighter (549th NFS)
several lights followed the plane, then were
crew (3 members)
chased by the pilot
M a USAAF B-29 formation
two orange balls of fire, one come from the
pilots
ground and moved along the aircraft path.
Tokyo Bay
M a USAAF B-29
one ball of fire followed the bomber, evasive
pilot
action not effective.
M a USAF B-17
one object looking like a fuselage made
X
pilot + crew
maneuvers near the aircraft
20 miles north of Iwo Jima
M One USAAF P-61B (549th NFS)
one yellowish light, approaching and loosing
GR
gunner
altitude. GCI radar contact
near Iwo Jima
M One USAAF P-61B (549th NFS)
one reddish round light. GCI radar contact : two GR
gunner
blips with evasive actions.
Off Kristansund
M One RAF Halifax III
one star-like object overtook the aircraft then
gunner
became stationary.
Fala Island, Truck Atoll
M a B-24 bomber (11th Bomb group) 2 cherry red objects changing color, followed
pilot
aircraft through evasive actions
east of Pfalzerwald
M a 415th NFS fighter
5 orange spherical objects in triangular
Nogoya
pilot M a USAAF B-29 (444th Bomb group)
formation one ball of fire.
pilot
Tokyo
M US 29th bombing group
fireballs approached the planes and followed
pilot
them
between Port Lyautey (Morocco) and M a USAF B-17
one disc-shaped object, shining like aluminium,
Dakar (Senegal)
crew + passenger
at 5-10 miles from the plane.
M several USAAF B-29s pilots (40th bomb group)
twenty balls of fire sighted by a group of bombers.
near Sasebo
M a USAAF B-29
one big ball of fuzzy orange-red light flew in
crew
formation with aircraft.
Hanford Nuclear Plant, Richland,
M 6 US Navy F6F Hellcat
a huge pinkish oval-shaped object, hovering 20 GR
X
Washington Kawasaki
pilots M A USAAF B-29 (315th wing)
minutes, at about 65,000ft one large orange light.
near Numazu
pilot M a USAAF B-29 (58th Wing)
one ball of fire at 10,000 ft followed the bomber
near Numazu
pilot M a USAAF B-29 (58th Wing)
and disappeared into smoke. one light maneuvered 500 ft above the bomber,
near Numazu
pilot M a USAAF B-29 (58th Wing)
went off and disappeared. one light passed to the right of the bomber
pilot
making sharp turns.
366
03/37
388
03/37
03/28
03/28
03 37 03/37
03
03/37 28 03/37 28 03/37
03/H2 20 400
03/37
03 400 03
03/37
03
M344
03/37
03/37
03/37
03/37
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