Declassified UFO / UAP Document
Flying Saucer Or Jet?
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AI-Generated Summary
A 1950 newspaper report details an unidentified aerial sighting by an airport employee in Penticton, Canada. The object, described as having swept-back wings, vanished within 25 seconds of being spotted.
On the morning of Friday, April 21, 1950, at approximately 9:00 AM, Stewart Jackson, an employee at the Penticton airport, observed an unidentified object in the sky. Jackson described the object as resembling a modern jet aircraft, noting specifically that it possessed swept-back wings. The object was sighted west of the airport at an altitude estimated to be just under 12,000 feet, a figure derived from known calculations regarding the height of a local cloud bank beneath which the object was traveling. Upon sighting the object, Jackson attempted to alert other personnel in the administration buildings. However, when these individuals reached the airfield approximately 25 seconds later, the object was no longer visible. The report notes that no one at the airport had previously witnessed such objects in the area. This account was published in The Penticton Herald on April 27, 1950.
It looked like one of these new jet jobs, with the swept-back wings, flying just under 12,000 feet west of the airport.
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Official Assessment
An airport employee observed an unidentified object with swept-back wings near the Penticton airport. By the time other staff were alerted 25 seconds later, the object was no longer visible.
Witnesses
- Stewart Jacksonairport employeePenticton airport