Pilot Sightings - UFO Casebook

UNIDENTIFIED AERIAL PHENOMENA EIGHTY YEARS OF PILOT SIGHTINGS

Catalog of Military, Airliner, Private Pilots' Sightings

from 1916 to 2000

February 2001 (6th edition) 1300+ cases

Dominique F. Weinstein NARCAP International Technical Advisor

France

Acknowledgements

I would like to thank Dr Richard F. Haines (NARCAP Chief Scientist), for his advises and his closecooperation, Dr Peter Sturrock and Dr Jacques Vall?e for their help and encouragements, Jean-Jacques Velasco (GEPAN-SEPRA), Gustavo Rodriguez (CEFAA-Chile) and Patrick Leprevost airliner pilot, for his cooperation and expertise.

And: Jan L. Aldrich (Project 1947 / Sign Historical Group), Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos (Fundacion Anomalia - Spain), Don Berliner (FUFOR - USA), Barry Greenwood (UFO Historical Revue - USA), Loren Gross (for the gift of the complete collection of his very interesting series : UFOs a history), Larry Hatch (*U* UFO Database - USA ), Richard Hall (FUFOR - USA), Don Ledger (Canada), Marco Orlandi (CISU ? Italy), Joel Mesnard (LDLN -France), Edoardo Russo (CISU) and Ed Stewart.

? Copyright 2001 Dominique Weinstein,

Abbreviations and Codes Table

AB

Air Base (US air force base outside U.S. territory)

AF

Air FORCE

AFB

Air Force Base (US Air Force Base in U.S. territory)

ANG Air National Guard

ARTCC Air Route Traffic Control Center

ATIC Air Technical Intelligence Center

CAA

Civil Aviation Authority

FAA

Federal Aviation Authority

GCI

Ground Control Intercept

GOC Ground Observators corps

NAS

Naval Air Station

NFS

Night Fighter squadron

NORAD North American Air Defense Command

RCAF Royal Canadian Air Force

RAF

Royal Air Force

RNZAF Royal New Zealand Air Force

SAC Strategic Air Command

USAAF United States Army Air Force (before September 1947)

USAF United States Air Force (after September 1947))

USMC US Marine corps

USN

US Navy

ft kph kts mph

feet Kilometer per hour knots (nautical miles) miles per hour (1 mile = 1,604 kilometer )

Aircraft: M : military aircraft, A : airliner, P : private aircraft Radar: AR : Airborne radar, GR : Ground radar, RO : Radar only Codes: G : ground witnesses, X : more than one plane involved, E: effects on plane (electromagnetic effects, engine failed, ...etc) Time: LT : Local Time, ZT : Zulu Time (Greenwich Meridian Time) Sources: See list of sources with code number at the end of the report

Dedicated to the late Captain Edward J. Ruppelt,

"...Of these (UFO) reports, the radar-visual sightings are the most convincing. When a ground radar picks up a UFO target and a ground observer sees a light where the radar target is located, then a jet interceptor is scrambled to intercept the UFO and the pilot also sees the light and gets a radar lock only to have the UFO almost impudently outdistance him, there is no simple answer..."

Edward J. Ruppelt, USAF Capt.,1956

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Introduction

For over fifty years, both civilian and military pilots have seen Unidentified Aerial Phenomena1 (UAP), also commonly called Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs). This catalogue is a compilation of more than 1300+ such sightings, by military pilots, private pilots and airliners crews.

These cases are special for several reasons. Training and experience make pilots and crews much more reliable witnesses than others. They are used to unusual meteorological phenomenons. They have the added advantage of being able to approach the phenomenon. Sometimes they can even overfly the object, observing it between themselves and the earth below. Military pilots are trained to estimate distances, shapes and speed of flying machines.

Sometimes, pilots' sightings are confirmed by radar detection, observers on the ground (control tower personnel, Ground Observer Corps, civilians,..) or other pilots in flight. In some cases electro -magnetic effects were noted (radios, radar, compasses, engines, ...). In a few rare cases the pilot or crew felt physical effects like heat, or blinding light.

This catalog contains 1305 cases: 606 Military aircraft cases, 444 Airliners cases, 193 private light planes (19 multiple aircraft, 43 cases with no mention of type of aircraft). Among the 1305 cases, 702 are North American.

A detailed study and a database of the 200 radar-cases in this catalog (about 15%) is currently under development at the French Space Agency (CNES) in France, as a SEPRA project led by Jean-Jacques Velasco. An initial evaluation of the most detailed radar-visual cases shows that the technical data indicated by radar (sizes, speeds, distances, maneuvers, locations) are quite close to those estimated by pilots.

Another study of the 57 cases involving electro -magnetic effects on th e aircraft (about 4%) of this catalog is under development with Dr Richard F. Haines for the National Aviation Reporting Center on Anomalous Phenomena (NARCAP)2

Dominique Weinstein Paris, February 3, 2001

1 An unidentified aerial phenomenon (UAP) is the visual stimulus that provokes a sighting report of an object or light seen in the sky, the appearance and/or flight dynamics of which do not suggest a logical, conventional flying object and which remains unidentified after close scrutinity of all available evidence by persons who are technically capable of making both a full technical identification as well as a common-sense identification, if one is possible. (Dr Richard F. Haines 1980) 2 the National Aviation Reporting Center on Anomalous Phenomena (NARCAP), PO Box 140, Boulder Creek, California 95006.

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