CUFON Computer UFO Network
Document #: 38
From: UFO INFO SERVICE
Date Sent: 09-22-1986
Subject: 1977 FAA REPORT
CUFON - Computer UFO Network Seattle, Washington
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION
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AIR ROUTE TRAFFIC CONTROL CENTER
1801 East Loula Street
Olathe, Kansas 6606l
FEDERAL AVIATION
APR 14 1977 ADMINISTRATION
Dear Sir:
I am in receipt of your letter concerning your research on the mystery
of Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) and I understand that you are
participating in an international effort to establish contact with
persons having past experiences involving UFOs.
In June 1970, I had occasion to come in direct contact with a UFO. I was
stationed in San Juan, Puerto Rico, with the Federal Aviation Administra-
tion (FAA) and was flying with the Puerto Rico Air National Guard. In
the early morning, a report had been received from two air carriers;
Pan American, and a local carrier, Caribair, that at dawn a large
balloon-like object was sighted drifting slowly southwestward at an
approximate altitude of 5,000 to 7,000 feet. The object was detected on
the Air Route Traffic Control Center radar and subsequently tracked.
Movement appeared to be in a southwesterly direction at 4 to 8 knots per
hour, varying slightly hour to hour. I was a member of a flight of 104s
and a T-33 aircraft that went to the site where the object had been
sighted to observe and to photograph it if possible.
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The object was
visible from the ground at Isla Verde Airport, San Juan, Puerto Rico,
lying low in the skies on a south southwesterly heading. Its appearance
was similar to a balloon. After becoming airborne and flying towards
the object, it became immediately apparent that it was at a very high
altitude and was quite a distance away. The object was approximately
40 miles southwest of Ponce, Puerto Rico, at an altitude in excess of
60,000 feet, estimated roughly at 80,000 feet. Myself in a T-33 and four
other pilots in f104s observed and photographed the object. The
following details are noted:
1. It was a manufactured item.
2. It was at least 125 feet in width with the same approximate
length.
3. It was shaped similar to the forward one-third of a speedboat
hull with a flat rear section and a pointed nose section.
(See sketch.)
4. There was an area of high reflectivity on the "keel" approxi-
mately one-third from the nose of the object. (See sketch.) | | |
