19 September 1994
(Milwaukee Sentinel, Wisconsin)
Quote from the article:
“The late astronaut Donald “Deke” Slayton had a close daylight encounter with a disc-shaped UFO in 1951 while flying an Air Force fighter plane (F-51 Mustang) out of a base in Minneapolis-St. Paul at speeds close to300 mph .
“The late astronaut Donald “Deke” Slayton had a close daylight encounter with a disc-shaped UFO in 1951 while flying an Air Force fighter plane (F-51 Mustang) out of a base in Minneapolis-St. Paul at speeds close to
The ground crew, Slayton wrote,
tracked the object with an instrument and ‘computed the speed at 4,000 miles an hour.’ ”
Slayton recounted the UFO incident in
a letter to Dr. J. Allen Hynek. The Milwaukee Sentinel presents
a partial text of the letter.
The UFO incident occurred on 12
December 1951, according to NICAP.org.
https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1368&dat=19940919&id=EJpQAAAAIBAJ&sjid=FBMEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4258,5882420
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The late Major Donald Kent “Deke” Slayton (U.S. Air
Force), Aeronautical Engineer, Test Pilot & NASA Astronaut
(wikimedia.org photo)
(wikimedia.org photo)
