PanAm Flight Observes Formation of Glowing Orange Discs Near Newport News
On the night of July 14, 1952, a Pan American World Airways flight (Flight 807) piloted by Captain William Nash and First Officer William Fortenberry was cruising at approximately 8,000 feet…
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Six blazing orange-red discs streak beneath a Pan American airliner over the Chesapeake Bay.
Newport News, Virginia, July 1952 — the summer America's skies turned unexplained.
Captain Nash and First Officer Fortenberry calmly reported what they witnessed to Air Force investigators.
In perfect unison the discs flipped on edge, snapped back horizontal, and reversed direction instantly.
Project Blue Book stamped the Nash-Fortenberry case a single word: Unknown.
Two seasoned pilots watched something that should not exist — and no one listened.