where are the figher pilots?

[boomerang]

Some of the best ufo testimony on video comes from commercial pilots flying various types of planes around the world. A high time turbine pilot going on camera with an extraordinary tale is powerful stuff.

Ufo lore is also replete with very credible reports of strange craft pursued by what appears to be jet fighter aircraft. So one would think that, over the years, more fighter or pursuit pilots would have come forward. Gordon Cooper and the Iranian F-4 pilot are notable exceptions. But overall, there seem to be relatively few. Is this just the usual secrecy bubble in action?

 

[trainedobserver]

Maintaining a flight status is probably foremost in these guys minds. If you see something odd, are told to not discuss it, you don't if you like flying. You'd think retired fighter pilots might have more leeway though.

 

[Snidely Whiplash]

Maybe if they felt comfortable reporting the incidents shortly after they happened there would be more. Perhaps by not talking about it for all those years they have reasoned what they saw away and chocked it up to a healthy imagination.

 

[Randall]

During the 1952 Washington DC sightings, Lieutenant William Patterson, a veteran of the Koren War, found his F-94 surrounded by a ring of bluish-white lights. He was not given permission to fire on them and they soon went into evasive maneuvers, instantly accelerating away beyond range. He was interviewed by the news media afterward and a few clips can be found if you search around on the internet. Another instance was On August 27 1956, when RCAF pilot R. J. Childerhose, was en-route from Gimli, Manitoba, to Vancouver, British Columbia. He was piloting one of four F-86 Sabre jets at an altitude of about 36,000 ft. and a speed of 460 mph. At about 7:20pm while over the Canadian Rockies near Ft. MacCleod, Alberta, he saw and photographed a bright disk shaped stationary object between 15 and 30 meters in diameter.

• http://ufopages.com/Reference/BD/F94-01a.htm
• http://ufopages.com/Reference/BD/RCAF-01a.htm

 

[boomerang]

During the 1952 Washington DC sightings, Lieutenant William Patterson, a veteran of the Koren War, found his F-94 surrounded by a ring of bluish-white lights. He was not given permission to fire on them and they soon went into evasive maneuvers, instantly accelerating away beyond range. He was interviewed by the news media afterward and a few clips can be found if you search around on the internet. Another instance was On August 27 1956, when RCAF pilot R. J. Childerhose, was en-route from Gimli, Manitoba, to Vancouver, British Columbia. He was piloting one of four F-86 Sabre jets at an altitude of about 36,000 ft. and a speed of 460 mph. At about 7:20pm while over the Canadian Rockies near Ft. MacCleod, Alberta, he saw and photographed a bright disk shaped stationary object between 15 and 30 meters in diameter.

• http://ufopages.com/Reference/BD/F94-01a.htm
• http://ufopages.com/Reference/BD/RCAF-01a.htm

Thanks, ufology! Good to hear from you again.