| Goose Bay, Labrador, Newfoundland, Canada June 30, 1954, 9:00 PM. A British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) Stratocruiser airliner, piloted by Capt. James Howard, approached Goose Bay at 9:00 PM local time, on its New York to London Flight. Suddenly Capt. Howard saw a large object " something like an inverted pear suspended in the sky." The UFO was accompanied by six saucer -- three forward, three aft. The Goose Bay tower told Howard that there were no aircraft in the area. Capt. Howard and his co-pilot, Lee Boyd, watched as the large UFO reshaped itself "into what looked like a flying arrow--and enormous delta-winged plane turning in to close with us." The large UFO paced the BOAC Stratocruiser for over 15 minutes before departing. Other witnesses included chief navigator George Allen, chief radio operator Douglas Cox, flight engineers Daniel Godfrey and William Stewardess Daphne Webster. Gander, Newfoundland February 10, 1951, 1:00 AM A circular, bright orange red "disk" was observed by the pilot, co-pilot, and navigator aboard a U.S. Navy R5D four engine transport cruising ten thousand feet over the North Atlantic en route from Iceland to Newfoundland. It was about 1:00 AM, GMT, February 10, 1951. The weather was clear except for a few nearly transparent clouds below the aircraft. The "disk" was observed for several minutes and then it appeared to zoom toward the plane, suddenly reverse its course, and head back over the horizon where it disappeared. The airplane commander communicated with Air Traffic Control at Gander and asked Gander to notify the U.S. military at Argentia of the sighting of the UFO. Upon landing the crew members made their reports and these found their way into the U.S. Air Force's official Project Blue Book. The strange sighting was recalled in 170 when the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP), the largest private organization devoted to investigating UFO sightings, published an interview with the pilot based on his recollections more than a decade after the encounter. As he recalled, "It appeared to be from 200 to 300 feet in diameter, translucent or metallic, shaped like a saucer, a purple red fiery ring around the perimeter and a frosted white glow around the entire object." The Gander case was drawn to the attention of the "Sherlock Holmes of UFOlogy," Philip J. Klass, who examined the Project Blue Book records, made an independent analysis, and reported his findings in UFOs Explained (1974). By establishing the exact position of the moon below the horizon, the presence of stratus clouds with ice crystals on the horizon, and the degree of below - the -horizon coverage due to refraction in the atmosphere, he concluded that what the pilots had seen and described was a lunar reflection, a "Sub Moon." "In my numerous years as a UFO investigator I have encountered many cases that prove to be misidentifications of unfamiliar objects, and occasionally of familiar objects seen under unusual conditions," Klass wrote. "But until my analysis of the Gander case, I would have had difficulty believing that so many experienced pilots and others in a flight crew could mistake the moon for a giant UFO that seemed to be zooming toward them on a collision course." "One contributing factor in the Gander case," he continued, "may have been the fact that there had been a considerable number of UFO reports in the press during the several months preceding this incident, and in 1951 the possibility of alien spaceships was still a conceivable hypothesis." Newfoundland 1958 I've had a few interesting sightings that have had a great influence on my life and thought. I witnessed with two others a large ,maybe 5 meters in diameter, blue ball of shimmering light fall from a point maybe a thousand meters high to just above the water of the North Atlantic where it separated into smaller balls that disappeared after traveling a few hundred meters radically about ten meters or so above the surface. There was no sound and no ripples were made on the water at all. Second was a semi rainbow that started from the apex and moved to the ground to the right of where I was standing. It then dissipated in the same direction over a period of five seconds or so. Not unusual in the daytime but this was at 2200 hours in October and very dark in Newfoundland. I remember I was about four when I was walking at night with some uncles when we spotted a "Wandering Star" this is what they called it and my grandfather said the same later. This was in 1958 and not many satellites were up there then. This phenomena was known and accepted by everyone then. I have seen these high altitude lights follow parallel trails when one went off at a ninety degree angle that violated any physical law I know about and twice I witnessed one of these not only zig-zag but suddenly grow dim as it sped away from the Earth. The high altitude lights I saw were some kind of controlled craft. The operation was highly unusual and the one I saw that sped away either to a higher orbit or out of here was all the proof I need of the fact that it was if not manned at least controlled and operating like nothing that I have seen, read or imagined. The falling blue Ball really shook me up as I have nothing to base any kind of analysis on. Nothing in science could explain it and I am glad there were others that saw it as well or I would seriously doubt my own judgment. The same goes for the semi rainbow. I never tried to explain either of these but in this area of Newfoundland there is a history of seeing lights of some sort or other that goes back a long way and continues today. Incidents have taken place in the last two years there that were seen by many witnesses who seem not to be bothered by it at all.Nobody tries to explain just look and talk about later mostly what explanations there are, are related to the superstition and belief in ghosts etc. that the locals seem willing to accept. |
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