Amarillo, Texas: TWA pilot dives to avoid red and green light, passenger injured
On the night of 22 July 1957 Capt. G. M. Schemel, flying a TWA Constellation at 18,000 feet near Amarillo, Texas, dove to avoid a big red and green light on a collision course; a passenger was injured and the plane made an unscheduled landing at Amarillo.
Background
Capt. G. M. Schemel, the pilot of a TWA Constellation, was flying at 18,000 feet near Amarillo, Texas, at night when a big red and green light bore down on his plane on a collision course. He put the aircraft into a dive and the object passed above him. One passenger was injured during the maneuver, and Schemel had to make an unscheduled landing at Amarillo to have the passenger hospitalized. Eberhart cites the Kenosha News of 24 July 1957 and NICAP's UFO Investigator (Aug./Sept. 1957). 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.