Sightings1951

Delhi Flying Club members report a cigar-shaped object

When: 15 Mar 1951
Where: New Delhi, India
Sources: 2 public sources

Safdarjung Airport in New Delhi, home of the Delhi Flying Club Ashish Bhatnagar, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

A chief aircraft engineer at the Delhi Flying Club and about 20 others reported a long, bullet-shaped object trailing a white cloud that looped over the field and left at high speed. The case is in the Project Blue Book files, and NICAP says Blue Book listed it as unidentified.

Sources

OtherMarch 15, 1951; New Delhi, India (BBU 908) - case directory (opens in a new tab)NICAP
OtherMarch 15, 1951; New Delhi, India - Project Blue Book documents (opens in a new tab)U.S. Air Force Project Blue Book (copy hosted by NICAP)

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