Sightings1950

TWA airliner crew and passengers see an orange-red object over northern Indiana

When

Apr 1950

Where

Northern Indiana

Sources

1 public source

In spring 1950 the crew and passengers of a TWA DC-3 night flight over northern Indiana reported a large orange-red object. Blue Book chief Edward Ruppelt later wrote that the official answer was blast-furnace light reflecting off haze, an explanation the pilots rejected.