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From: Jan Aldrich <jan@CYBERZONE.NET>
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 1996 00:05:02 -0800
Fwd Date: Mon, 30 Dec 1996 11:25:20 -0500
Subject: Project 1947 - Leads to Aircraft Encounter Cases

The following leads possibly could be followed up in several ways. Areas
close to the sightings may have newspaper accounts pertaining to these or
other cases in the area.

1.  From the Palo Alto Times (date uncertain, probably about 11 July
1959).  Excerpt from an article about the Pacific Ocean sighting of 11
July 1959.  (See UFO Evidence, Section X) entitled "Los Altos pilot has
seen the flying saucers before" by Ray Spangler.

   CPT Richard Lorenzen of Los Altos, co-pilot of a Pan American flight
that witnessed the 11 July 1959 object told of an earlier case.  "....
Lorenzen, who has been with Pan-Am for 14 years and with the air force
before that, spoke a little reluctantly about the affair.  He went
through something like this in 1949 while flying between Blegrade and
Salonika.  That time the object wasn't as vivid nor could it be discerned
as clearly.

    "The, as this time there was an elaborate air force report form to be
filled out.  It's a standard six pages and filing it is rather a
laborious task."

2.  He is a rather cold lead from a letter to the NICAP Chicago Affiliate
on 20 July 1965 from John G. Norris.  Excerpt follows:

    "Finally, there is another report of a sighting that your
organization should try to get hold of if it doesn't already have it.
The man who could supply the necessary details is M. Willem Deawarte,
Directeur-Generale, Sabena Belgian World Airlines, Sabena Terminus
Building, Brussels 1, Belgium.

    "In brief, the story as I learned it from him the day of its
occurrence (I was a consultant to Sabena at the time) is as follows:

    "There were at that time (1954) daily flights of Sabena planes
between Brussels and Leopoldville in the Congo.  One plane took off from
Brussels and another from Leopoldville at about the same time, heading in
 opposite directions, passed each other over the African desert (at
different altitudes and longitudinal corridors, of course), and arrived
at their destinations at about the same time.  While in flight, each
plane was in radio contact with one or another of a succession of ground
control points but not with each other.

    "One day, over the Sahara, the pilots, crew, and passengers of both
planes made simultaneous, but independent, sightings of an UFO and
reported this to their respective ground control stations.  The pilots
and navigators of each plane took appropriate sightings, noted times
speeds, directions of apparent travel and the like from which computations
were made showing that the two groups people had sighted the same object
and agreed in detail of its appearance and behavior.  Its path over the
ground was fixed with precision by reference to cloud formations which
alternately hid it from view and exposed it to view.  This knowledge in
turn allowed the observers to convert its observed angular displacement
into an accurate expression of true speed.

   "The two independent reports agreed perfectly and were supported by
the observations of the many passenger-witnesses.  I should think that
this would be a valuable bit of documentation, and I should think that
Sebena would make it available to a serious group."

I wrote to SOBEP in Belgium asking their help in gaining further details
about this case.  Due to language difficulties I have not heard from
them.  I also asked Richard Hall if NICAP had followed up on this case.
He did not recall it.  Possibly, it had been sent by NICAP to J.
Hennessey in Britain for follow up.

3.  From DISC DIGEST (Vol III, 1959, page 10), Den Haag, the Netherlands
come the following report with no reference cited.

"On the 27th of February [1954] the Dutch civilian pilot H. Dil, flying
form Tunis (North Africa) to Amsterdam (Northern Holland), observed a
Flying Saucer over the Mediterranean.  Three other pilots of the K. L. M.
(Royal Dutch Airlines) stated that they had confronted with Flying
Saucers during their trips in 1954."

This sounds like an summarized account from a newspaper article.

4.  On page 23 of the above publication we have the following report:

   "June 28 [1958]:  P. J. Krouwell, air pilot of the Royal Dutch
Airlines, saw at his flight from Holland to America, near Shannon-airport
(Ireland) in the early hours of this day a ball of fire passing his
aeroplane.  The ball started as a star with the brightness of Venus and
growing to a round luminous object as big as 1/5 of the moon.  The
aeroplane was at a height of 10,000 feet.  The weather ship "C" of Charley
has observed the same ball of fire.  Endglish and American authorities
stated that this object could not have been a guided missile.  Nearly at
the same place the Dutch airliner Hugo de Groot crashed some month
before."

Thanks to Loren Gross and Ed Stewart.

Jan Aldrich