Schenectady, New York: Griffiss AFB has American Airlines Flight 715 follow a light

At 10:15 p.m. Capt. Raymond E. Ryan, First Officer William Neff, flight attendant Phyllis Reynolds and many passengers on American Airlines Flight 715 from Albany, flying at 260 mph and 6,000 feet north of Schenectady, spotted a brilliant white light 2–3 miles away to the left. The light moved at an estimated 800–1,000 mph to a position 8–10 miles dead ahead, turned orange and seemed to block the airliner's path, disappeared briefly and reappeared standing still to the west. Controllers at Griffiss AFB in Rome, New York, asked Ryan to switch his lights off and on, told him the airliner was seen and the orange object was to the south, and ordered him to maintain course and follow the object west, so that he skipped his scheduled landing at Syracuse after nearly 30 minutes. A promised fighter interception never appeared, and the object disappeared at high speed to the northwest toward Oswego. Eberhart cites NICAP, the Buffalo Evening News and Albany Times-Union, CSI News Letter, UFO Investigator and Gross. The account follows the entry in George M. Eberhart's chronology UFOs and Intelligence (CUFOS) and the sources cited there; it is not an independent determination by From Beyond Space.