By Dr. J. Allen Hynek
Source: NICAP.org
Quote from the report:
“This case is a classic. The late Dr. James McDonald made a valiant
attempt in get details from original witnesses after discovering that a major
report, submitted to Blue Book by the “UFO Officer” (who was one of the
witnesses!) at Davis-Monthan, was missing.
A small part of this was apparently recovered and now appears in the
Blue Book microfilms. The story is as follows:
An Air Intelligence Officer (who had as one of his
regular duties, the analysis of UFO cases reported to the local air base), a
B-36 crew, and an airman on the steps of the base hospital (just coming from
having his knee treated) all attested to this event. Two shiny round objects overtook a B-36,
slowed down to the speed of the B-36, stayed in formation with it for about 20
seconds, then executed a sharp no-radius 70-80-degree turn from the line of
flight of the B-36, and resumed original speed and went to about one-fourth the
distance to the horizon where one of the two objects made an immediate stop and
hovered. There was no sound other than
that of the B-36. There were no
contrails from either the objects or the B-36.
Despite the detailed description (in the original
report) of the maneuvers of the two shiny, silent objects, Blue Book dismissed
this case as ‘Aircraft.’ ”
Wikipedia.org article: “Davis–Monthan Air Force Base”:
Aircraft Maintenance and Regeneration Group (AMARG)
boneyard at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base (text by Wikipedia) (wikimedia.org)
(wikimedia.org photo)
