Designer of U-2 Spy Plane Witnessed Strange UFO
The Kelly Johnson UFO sighting
Without question one of the most credible UFO sightings of all times is the sighting of a dark elliptical craft on Dec. 16, 1953 by one of the world’s leading airplane designers, Clarence Leonard “Kelly” Johnson, who created the U-2 spy plane for the CIA.
Additionally, what makes this sighting so credible is that unbeknown to Johnson, a Lockheed test pilot on a flight along the Los Angeles coast corroborated Kelly’s discovery.
The event
Johnson spotted the craft from his Lindero Cattle Ranch near Agoura, Calif. at concerning 5 p.m. as well as initially thought it was a lenticular cloud, or the vapor route from some sort of aircraft.
“When it did not move or disintegrate, I asked my wife to obtain me our 8-power field glasses, so I could not have to take my eyes off the things, which now I had actually identified as a so-called dish,” Kelly wrote in this Dec. 18, 1953 letter to the United States Air Force. (See copy of letter listed below).
Johnson after that ran outside his residence so he can focus better on the weird things.
“The item even in the glasses, showed up black as well as unique, but I can construct out no detail,” Johnson wrote.
As Johnson watched for around 5 minutes fascinated– this is a male who went to the reducing side of top-secret aircraft modern technology– when the item instantly climbed and also scampered at a rate Johnson approximated as difficult for any type of earthly innovation.
The next day when Johnson reported for work at Lockheed, he discovered that of its test pilots had actually seen the exact same UFO at the same time while examining the Constellation airframe 4301, which was a model for the Navy Airborne Early Caution airplane.
The test pilot, Rudy Thoren, additionally recorded his experience with the Air Force, which checked out the instance as part of its Job Blue Book, only to conclude that both males had actually misinterpreted a cloud for a UFO.
Below are duplicates of documents including an illustration of the UFO laid out by Johnson and also copy of his letter to the Air Force reporting the case:
