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In March, I decided to go away for just a very few days unknown to anybody.

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I planned to join a friend over a weekend for a period of a couple days' rest in Puerto

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Rico.

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The plane of Pan American Airlines planes left Miami.

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There were storms and I remember a great deal of wind and a great deal of cloud formations

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and flying above the rain.

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The plane did go off its normal airline course.

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About 3.30, 3.15 in the morning, an hour and ten minutes out of San Juan, Puerto Rico,

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to the left of the, and I was sitting at a window and I was reclining trying to sleep

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but was not asleep.

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This gave, though the windows are small, this gave a complete vista over the ring of the

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plane because I was leaning back.

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A solid looking luminous large object with a greenish core to it, very bright, very large,

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moving at a fantastic speed.

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I don't know how fast it was going.

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I'm not capable of judging it.

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I don't know how fast the plane was going.

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It looked as though it were going to hit the plane exactly.

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The next moment the pilot veered his plane as he rose quite steeply.

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Many of the passengers were knocked into the, I should say all the two or three passengers

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were knocked into the aisles.

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Their safety belts were not on.

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It was of course no indication that anything was going to happen.

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And of course many people were thrown into the aisle.

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I know a massive mass of stewardess and two passengers, the gift laws of Brooklyn were

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hospitalized and treated for shock and injuries.

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The thing the object made, and this was the unusual thing, at least from what I've heard

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and read of unidentified flying objects, the object made a tremendous amount of noise.

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Now whether I think it was from the object, I don't believe it was from our plane, but

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it made a roaring, tremendous roaring sound.

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But the interesting observation, and all of this happened in a second, you may have

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seen how many things one can observe in a second, the object, though it appeared to

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be on a dead collision course with the plane, exactly veered away from the plane, changed

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its direction, went up, leveled off, and then went back.

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This is what we saw.

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Almost every passenger saw this.

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There was, of course, a great hysteria and great shock.

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Upon landing, and I say the airline officials were extremely nice and most hospitable, interested

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in the welfare of the passengers, about an hour after arrival, the passengers were told,

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now repeat this, the passengers on the plane were told that the airlines regret it with

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almost mishap caused by a meteor, where upon one or two passengers remarked immediately,

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well this wasn't a meteor, and how do you know it was a meteor, and how can you assume

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it was a meteor?

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Again, the statement was repeated.

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We regret this almost mishap due to the, and they said they had no control over the meteor,

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which almost hit the plane.

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Well, I can repeat, I have no scientific background, but I've never known of a meteor

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to come at an airplane, almost hit it, change course, go up, rise above the plane, level

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off the sea, as I imagine, it went up as the plane went up.

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It came towards the plane, veered out, and rolled as the plane rose in its bank, leveled

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off and then reversed its direction.

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Now I have never seen, and I defy any astronomer or any man who was adapting the studies and

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meteors to tell me that a meteor would react like this.

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The object was not incandescent, it was not burning, it was not gaseous, there were not

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darks and tons of flames leaping about it, it was a solid object.

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I did not have wings, there were no propellers, but I could see of course, it was quite sudden.

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It was more like a, it wasn't saucer shaped, it was more like a football based on a saucer.

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It was quite bright with a steady glow, and it had seemed to have a core of green on it.

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But if an object were going at a straight line, in a straight line, and about on a collision

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course with an object crossing that line, and the object about to cross it veered up,

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the object would continue its straight course and pass underneath, would it not, the body,

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this did not, this reversed and almost backtracked its entire movement the moment it came within

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range of the plane.

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And I must say again, and I repeat, it was not a clear night, and there had been conflicting

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stories that the plane was on its normal course, it was not on its normal course.

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The New York papers said one, the New York Times for example, I think every paper covered

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it, they all had pointed out the pilot was off the normal airline course.

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I must also say that the seven other planes in the vicinity saw the same object that night,

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and they all radioed into the field at San Juan because commercial pilots have orders

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from their airlines that a moment and UFO is cited as it is to be radioed into the field

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immediately.

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They, seven pilots on different, it was a different commercial passenger airlines, not army airlines,

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the Air Force, saw the same UFO and the pilots in talking to one another have all confirmed

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that they saw an unidentified flying object that they couldn't know what it was.

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Immediately pressure was important for government based in San Juan to know that what kind of

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missiles were doing out or jet planes were doing in the commercial airlines, and the government

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in San Juan and the government later here in the United States immediately denied that

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there were any runaway missiles number one and number two that any jets were anywhere

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near the commercial lanes at that time.