Mist Urliver Bob 731ph,
U.S. Portland Ploeae,
Boudonfield, Quebec
697-6297 [Mtl]
Flight 500-4th. Position: V300, 45 K.M. east of St. Jean
Altitude: 12,000 ft. Outside air temp. Wind plus 10
Magnetic heading: 990 deg. Magnetic track: 28T dog.
True air speed 256 kts. Ground speed: 21T kts.
Time of observation: 19:15 EDT (checked clock)
Flying on top of layered cloud, well below us.
The Captain drew my attention to an unusual set of lights to the south
One large bright white light and 6 small ones. It looked like a large
kite about 20 deg. above the horizon at 90 dogs to the aircraft. While
we were looking at this set of lights we saw a big fire ball that star-
ted as a very bright white light and grew into a large red ball. It
then turned violet in color then light blue. We saw two of these, I
checked the clock. The first one was at 19:19 EDT the second at 19:21
at 19:35 EDT one large pear shape cloud glowing pale blue was drifting
slowly eastward.
T/O Bob Ralph who is presently training to become a Captain had written the basic flight informations, time and position on a piece of paper. He also made a diagram at the time, photostat included.
National Research Council of Canada/ RG 77, Vol. 306 Conseil national de recherches du Canada