It was also witnessed by air-traffic controllers Lloyd D. Gorman wasn’t the only one to see the mysterious object that night.
Why Did the Air Force Destroy the Report? Other witnesses but was able to attain a far steeper climb and was able to maintain a constant rate of climb far in excess of my aircraft.” “The object was not only able to out-turn and out-speed my aircraft. “I am in fairly good physical condition and I do not believe that there are many, if any, pilots who could withstand the turn and speed effected by the object, and remain conscious,” he wrote. Gorman reported blacking out temporarily due to the excessive speed he reached in attempting to turn with the object. I thought it was making a pass at the tower.” As I approached, however, the light suddenly became steady and pulled into a sharp left bank. “It was about six to eight inches in diameter, clear white and completely without fuzz at the edges,” he said of the object in his report. Advised by the control tower that the only other plane in the vicinity was a Piper Cub (which Gorman could see about 500 feet below him), he witnessed what he believed to be the taillight of another craft passing on the right, though the tower had no other object on the radar.ĭeciding to take a closer look at the unidentified object, Gorman pulled his plane up and closed to within about 1,000 yards. Having circled his P-51 over a lighted football stadium, he was preparing to land at about 9 P.M. While the other pilots landed at Fargo’s Hector Airport, on that fateful evening Gorman stayed in the air in order to get in some night-flying time in the cloudless conditions. 1, 1948, taking part in a cross-country flight alongside other National Guard airmen. It was this role that placed him behind the flight controls of a P-51 Mustang on Oct. Toni Frissell/Interim Archives/Getty ImagesĪt the time of the incident, Gorman, a 25-year-old former fighter pilot, served as a second lieutenant in the North Dakota Air National Guard. Three P-51 Mustangs circa 1945, the same aircraft George Gorman was flying during his UFO encounter.
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