ΠΟΛΥ ΣΗΜΑΝΤΙΚΗ ΠΕΡΙΠΤΩΣΙΣ
Bob Pratt
About the time you think you've heard all you ever wanted to know about UFOs and more, along comes something new and intriguing.
About the time you think you've heard all you ever wanted to know about UFOs and more, along comes something new and intriguing.
I
made a special trip to Indianapolis, Indiana, in January 1982 to interview
George Lynn Guthrie, then fifty, field supervisor for a large insurance company.
I
took a detour of nearly a thousand miles on an auto trip from Florida to Birmingham
to Houston to see him. He wouldn't tell me his story over the phone. He wanted
to see me face to face before he'd discuss it.
At
that time, Guthrie taught computer operations to the secretarial staff throughout
the company's one hundred twenty offices in Indiana, and later formed his
own technology company. His background, however, is linguistics.
He
had been, at one time, a Russian-voice intercept processing supervisor for
the Air Force Security Service Command, whatever that means. He wouldn't discuss
what he did, but he said he studied Russian at Syracuse University's Skytop
College, which was operated by the university for the U.S. Air Force.
Guthrie
served in the Air Force for twenty seven years, retiring in 1977 with a rank
of master sergeant.
When
I interviewed him, he was still subject to the National Security Acts and,
because of the nature of the work he did in the Air Force, probably always
will be. Although he couldn't discuss his job, he didn't feel that telling
me about something he and others saw on a particular flight would violate
any of the security oaths he signed.
"It
was while I was in the Air Force as crew chief of an airborne intelligence
crew flying a mission in the Baltic Sea during the month of November
1970," Guthrie said as we sat at his dining room table. "We
had been airborne for perhaps seven or eight hours and the time of the
sighting was approximately eleven or eleven thirty p.m. in the evening.
‘DAMN, LOOK AT THAT THING GO!’
"We
were at the far southerly end of our mission orbit leg. We had made a turn
off the coast of Gotland Island, which is a Swedish possession in the
upper Baltic Sea, and were turning in an easterly direction heading generally towards
Copenhagen, Denmark."
Guthrie
was in an RC-135 reconnaissance plane with a three-man flight crew in
the cockpit and a team of specialists in the back under his command.
"Perhaps
fifteen or twenty minutes after mission termination, I called the front end
crew, the aircraft commander, and as I pressed the intercom button, I heard
a conversation between the navigator, pilot and co-pilot. They were obviously
seeing something out of the front cockpit window of the aircraft, and
I think the remark at the time was, 'God damn, look at that thing go!'
"I asked what was up and
they said they really didn't know but they saw another similar object
on the horizon to the south of us over East Germany and that perhaps
I could see it in the back of the aircraft out of one of the porthole windows.
"So,
without telling the rest of the members of my crew, because I did not
want them to leave station, I put my assistant in charge and stepped
out into the corridor and looked out the window towards the front of
the aircraft, which at this time was beginning its mission turn from
almost due south to a westerly course off the southern tip of Gotland
Island and turning on a heading more or less towards Copenhagen.
"And
at that time I saw three bright glowing objects flying in a triangular
formation. Our mission aircraft at the time was doing approximately four
hundred fifty or five hundred knots, and these appeared to be closing
extremely rapidly on a parallel course to the aircraft.
“We
were going at that point in our turn from a southerly to a westerly direction
and they were proceeding from the south-southwesterly direction to a
northeasterly direction.
"The
night was extremely clear. We had good visibility clear to the ground.
It was a bright night. The objects I saw were three in number. They were
flying in a triangular formation, with a lead man and two point men on
either side of the lead man.
COLOSSAL SPEED
“They
appeared as round, glowing red fireballs. The nearest thing I can describe
to it is an old fashioned cook stove lid that's been overheated and is
just glowing red, or like something you'd see on an anvil in a blacksmith's
shop, the glowing red of metal.
"I
cannot state with any degree of accuracy whether these were relatively
small objects seen fairly close to the aircraft or whether they were
quite large objects seen at some distance away.
"The
one thing that astounded me was the colossal speed. Even after compensating
for our forward direction and they were moving in the opposite direction
paralleling the aircraft, they would appear on the horizon and had swept across
my complete range of vision from the front of the aircraft to the rear
and going over the horizon towards the Arctic regions, it was just a
matter of two or three seconds.
"I
imagine my field of vision at thirty five thousand feet, at a guess,
would have been two hundred miles, a hundred miles in each direction,
and they were covering that distance at an incredible speed.
"And
just as I was sitting there open-mouthed astonished watching this phenomenon
flash by, there on the horizon appeared three more identical objects,
and I watched no less than five or six groups of these things appear
suddenly on the horizon at great speed, pass the aircraft and disappear in
the Arctic regions to the rear of the aircraft.
"After
five or six of these groups had passed, that seemed to be the end of
them. We saw no more of them. They did not return.
“They
did not make any maneuvers or deviate left or right or alter course or
speed or altitude. They just went in a straight line from one horizon
out of sight to the rear of the aircraft over the horizon.
"I
would say the time it took them to appear and disappear couldn't have
been more than seconds, perhaps three or four seconds we would have each
group in sight.
"It
was just incredible. I have never seen anything move like that in my
life.
INTELLIGENTLY CONTROLLED?
“I've
been on aircraft as senior airborne crew member for twelve, fifteen years,
and I've been around all types of aircraft, flown on aircraft, logged
thousands of hours on old World War II B-50s, B-29s, C-47s, B-47s, C-130
A and B models, RC-135Hs.
“I'm
familiar with most of the aircraft in the Air Force inventory and I've
worked on flight lines of aircraft all my life, helicopters and various
types of aircraft, and yet these fit into no known aircraft configuration
that I have ever seen in my life.
"They
were completely circular. They appeared to be under intelligent control
because of the fact they were in formation, an intelligently guided formation.
"As
far as the external characteristics, all I can say is to repeat what
I said, they reminded me of a round glowing fireball, something like
a stove lid that is red hot."
Guthrie
saw at least eighteen and perhaps twenty one of these objects, and the
flight crew in the front end had seen at least one or two groups before
Guthrie became aware of what was happening.
"Everybody
was rather stunned,” Guthrie added. “We sat speechless for a little bit
because we knew they were not terrestrial aircraft off of this planet,
of any nation.
“This
was quite obvious to anybody that's flown as many hours as we have, that
those craft could possibly exist or belong to any country on this planet.
There's nothing that travels that fast that's man-made.
"They
were not meteors. Meteors do not fly in formation. Meteors don't fly
in a straight line from one horizon to the other.
"They
were, I feel, intelligently guided, if not controlled internally, then
controlled externally perhaps, as a remote vehicle from some other craft.
But even that stupefies the imagination that anything could be controlled at
those colossal speeds from a remote viewpoint."
Such
speeds are indeed unbelievable. He had no way of knowing how far away
the objects were or over what distances he had them in sight. But, if
they came and went in four seconds – he had actually started counting,
"one thousand and one, one thousand and two…” – they had to have been
clipping along at several tens of thousands of miles an hour. That's
pretty zippy.
Naturally, that seems impossible,
even to those of us living in the fast lane. But, given the present state
of acceleration of our own technology, what speeds will we be capable
of in a couple of hundred years?
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