fly. At exactly nine twenty-nine by the cockpit
clock the pilot, a Jack Adams, noticed a white light off to his left.
The copilot, G. W. Anderson, was looking at the chart but out of the
corner of his eye he saw the pilot lean forward and look out the
window, so he looked out too. He saw the light just as the pilot
said, "What's that?"

The copilot's answer was classic: "No, not one of those things."

Both pilots had only recently voiced their opinions regarding the
flying saucers and they weren't complimentary.

As they watched the UFO, it passed across the nose of their DC-3 and
they got a fairly good look at it. Neither the pilot nor the copilot
was positive of the object's shape because it was "shadowy" but they
assumed it was disk-shaped because of the circular arrangement of
eight or ten "portholes," each one glowing from a strong bluish-white
light that seemed to come from the inside of whatever it was that
they saw. The UFO also had a blinking white light on top, a fact that
led many people to speculate that this UFO was another airliner. But
this idea was quashed when it was announced that there were no other
airliners in the area. The crew of the DC-3, when questioned on this
possibility, were definite in their answers. If it had been another
airplane, they could have read the number, seen the passengers, and
darn near reached out and slugged the pilot for getting so close to
them.

About a month later, over northern Indiana, TWA treated all the
passengers of one of their DC-3 nights to a view of a UFO that looked
like a "big glob of molten metal."

The official answer for this incident is that the huge orange-red
UFO was nothing more than the light from the many northern Indiana
blast furnaces reflecting a haze layer. Could be, but the pilots say
no.

There were similar sightings in North Korea two years later--and
FEAF Bomber Command had caused a shortage of blast furnaces in North
Korea.

UFO sightings by airline pilots always interested me as much as any
type of sighting. Pilots in general should be competent observers
simply because they spend a large part of their lives looking around
the sky. And pilots do look; one of the first things an aviation
cadet is taught is to "Keep your head on a swivel"; in other words,
keep looking around the sky. Of all the pilots, the airline pilots
are the cream of this group of good observers. Possibly some second
lieutenant just out of flying school could be c