Pilot draws 'flying jellyfish'
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By Daily Mail Reporter
HIS sketch of seven mys-
terious flying objects was
drawn exclusively for the Daily
Mail yesterday by Captain James
Howard, 33-year-old pilot of the
BOAC stratocruiser, who saw
them at 19.000ft. over Goose
Bay, Labrador. on Wednesday.
The centre machine he des-
cribed as a "flving jellyfish"
because it appeared to be con-
His
stantly changing shape.
sketch shows the three main
shapes. The six smaller blobs
_" they were dots in compar:-
their positions.
son." altered
Sometimes three ahead and
three astern. at other times one
or two ahead and the rest
astern..
At his Bristol home, Captain
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Howard said: "I'm still
sceptical of the flying saucer
theory of piloted aircraft from
other pianets, and all the other
tales. All I am willing to be-
leve is what I saw and what
my crew saw. Whether these
objects were piloted craft or
what they were I refuse to
speculate. They were not like
any plane I have seen before
except for one short time when
the larger abject took on the
shape of a delta-wing aircraft.
"In my 7.500 hours in the air.
nothing like this has ever hap-
pened before. I am certain
these objects were not the result
of reflected light or mirages or
any other usual phenomena one
This
meets at high altitude.
really was something different."
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