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UFO. Canada

ID #1589356094
Added Wed, 13/05/2020
Author July N.
Sources
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Status
Fact

Initial data

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Incident date: 
1956
Location: 
Гандер, NL
Canada

The case which we consider here refers to 1956. Originally this was told by major Donald E. Keyho, which at the time I first heard this story in 1959, during which he served as a Director of the National Investigative Committee on aerial phenomena.

To Kaho approached the captain of the Navy James Taylor, who told a wonderful story he has long tried to keep away from the public eye. According to Taylor, in 1956, he was aboard the naval transport R7v-2, piloted by commander George Benton and Lieutenant Peter V. Mooney, in flying across the Atlantic to the naval air station in Patuxent, Maryland, in the United States, along with several other sailors returning from abroad, a few dozen members of the crew and 30 pilots-pilots, navigators and flight engineers. This evening they were coming to a stop in Gander (Newfoundland), according to reports, in clear and calm conditions with good visibility, when played out by a series of strange events.

When Benton looked at the calm sea, he noticed that instead of the dark space that stretched to the horizon unnoticed before, now was in front of the “group of lights, like a village.” It turned out that the co-pilot also could clearly see him, and they both agreed that he looked like a small town, just sitting there in the middle of the ocean.

The problem was that there wasn't supposed to be anything but open water. At first they thought they were off course and close to the Ground, but the test of the devices showed that they are exactly on track. Then it was suggested that they had seen ships, but attempts to contact them by radio were met with silence, and checking with his radio operator did not find any record of any group of ships that are scheduled there.

Not helped by the fact that these ships were not like any they've seen before. It was weird enough that they woke some of the other crew members, most of whom were sleeping, and several other people were crowded in the cabin to see the strange sight. Now they were almost directly over mysterious lights and began to circle around them to try to understand what is happening.

Just then a group of lights suddenly dimmed, and kikho write about it:

When our plane began to describe circles, weird lights had suddenly dimmed. Then came some colored rings, which started to spread. One of them, as noted by Benton seemed to have increased in size. Behind him he heard someone shout. Benton gave him another look. That the ring was not on the surface, it was rushing to the transport.

“What the hell is this?- said Mooney.

"I don't know," muttered Benton.

He began to rise. But then he realized that it was useless. The ring could catch them in seconds. The glow, he now saw, came from the edge of a large round object. It reached its height, and quickly took the shape of a giant disc-shaped machine.

Whatever it was, it was huge. The plane on which they were called Super-Constellation, a huge four-engine plane, more like a flying fortress than a plane, with a length of 116 feet and a wingspan of 117 feet, and this mysterious object, reportedly, completely eclipsed it, according to Benton, about 400 feet in diameter. He quickly gained altitude and the plane lurched in evasive maneuver, but just when a collision seemed inevitable, the object turned in the direction of their plane and began to walk on the left side.

It was then that they were able to see the true enormity of this, and Keyho says :

Its weight was astonishing; its diameter is three to four times the wingspan of our aircraft. At least thirty feet thick in the center, it was like a gigantic dish inverted on top of another. Visible from this distance, the glow along the rim was blurred and uneven. If it was an electrical effect, a series of jet exhausts or light from openings in the rim, Benton could not tell. But the glow was bright enough to show the curved surface of the disc, giving a hint of dimly reflecting metal. Although Benton did not see any signs of life, he had a feeling that they are being watched. Resisting the urge to dive, he held a direct course. Gradually, the strange machine pulled ahead. Tilting his massive body upwards, he quickly picked up speed and was lost among the stars.

After that painful experience Benton immediately called the tower on the ground and asked if they noticed anything strange, and they confirmed that the object was detected by their radar, but things got very weird when they landed in Granger. According to Taylor, they were met by intelligence officers of the air force, which gave them a long interrogation about what they saw, and, it seemed, believed that it was all fact, never asking what people saw, but rather wanting the details.

After this mysterious officers refused to answer any questions about what, in their opinion, was happening, and told the crew that witnessed this phenomenon that he was silent about it. After a few days, Benton said that he was approached by an unnamed scientist, who showed him photographs of the object that they saw, but refused to disclose more information about it.

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