Pan Am Constellation sighting near Boston
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Two Pan American Airways pilots observed an unidentified orange cylindrical object approximately one mile away at 8,000 feet while flying from Newfoundland to New York on August 4, 1947.
“Mr. Powell described the object as being about the length of a P-40 fuselage, blunt at both ends, cylindrical in shape, and having a bright orange hue. Mr. Powell stated that the object had a definite shape, and that there was no suggestion of gaseous dissipation as there would be if the orange color were the exhaust from a rocket, or a jet aircraft. Mr. Powell lost sight of the object, when a cloud came between the aircraft and the object.”
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Case details
- Date
- 1947-08-04
- Precision
- day
- Location
- approximately midway between the Everett (Mass) Fan Marker and the Bedford Radio Beacon, near Boston, Massachusetts
- Country
- United States
- Region
- Massachusetts
- Branch
- USN
- Unit
- Air Defense Command, Mitchel Field, New York
- Sensors
- eyewitness
- Shape
- cylindrical, blunt at both ends
- Size
- about the length of a P-40 fuselage
- Altitude
- 7800 ft
- Duration
- 30s
Source document
Agency: FBI
File: 65_HS1-834228961_62-HQ-83894_Serial_130
Case ID: 1947-USN-647B
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