From: Don Ledger <dledger.nul>
Date: Thu, 09 Dec 2004 14:07:18 -0400
Fwd Date: Thu, 09 Dec 2004 13:17:00 -0500
Subject: Re: This Navy Sighting Was Dynamite - Ledger


>From: Terry W. Colvin <fortean1.nul>
>To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <ufoupdates.nul>
>Date: Thu, 09 Dec 2004 09:29:24 -0700
>Subject: This Navy Sighting Was Dynamite

>[Fat-fingered after working the graveyard shift, therefore typos may
>pop up. -Terry]

>Flying Saucer Review, Volume 49/2, Summer 2004, pp. 21-23
>Established 1955

>http://www.fsr.org.uk

>This Navy Sighting Was Dynamite

>From the NICAP records
>by Major Donald E. Keyhoe

>It was early in '59 when I learned of this hidden report - a startling
>encounter with a UFO. The lead came in a brief message from Admiral
>Delmar S. Fahrney, former Navy missile chief, whom I had known for years.

>"Captain James Taylor, USN, Ret., has an important UFO sighting made by a
>naval pilot and his crew. Call him at Spacetronics, Inc., in Washington,
>District 7-9481."

>That night, when Captain Taylor gave me this dramatic Navy report, I could
>see why it had never been released to the public. Later, Admiral Fahrney
>and I met at the Army-Navy Club and discussed the details. Fahrney knew,
>as well as I did, of other hidden UFO cases - some of them highly
>significant. But this one stood out in importance.

>It had happened in 1956. Cruising at 19,000 feet, a Navy R7V-2
>transport - a four-engine Super-Constellation - was flying west
>across the Atlantic Ocean. The next stop was Gander,
>Newfoundland. Final destination, Naval Air Station, Patuxent,
>Maryland.

This is the Lt. US Naval Reserve, pilot Graham Bethune case.
Keyhoe used Benton to disquise his name.


Don Ledger