McMurdo Station, Antarctica: C-130 crew sees nine glowing objects, radio and engines fail
Early on 20 April 1964, during Operation Deep Freeze, six crew members of a C-130 supply flight from McMurdo Station, Antarctica, saw a V-formation of nine glowing white objects pace their aircraft while radio, radar and auxiliary power failed and the engines stopped.
Background
In the early morning, during Operation Deep Freeze VII, six members of a US Coast Guard aircrew flying supplies from McMurdo Station, Antarctica, in a C-130 turboprop transport sighted a V-formation of 9 glowing white objects at an estimated 35,000 feet. The objects approached from above and to the right at about 460 mph, slowed to the aircraft's speed when abreast and then took up position above and to its left. The radio was dead, the radar stopped working and auxiliary power did not function; at one point the engines stopped, yet the airplane allegedly kept "a steady altitude and course" in complete silence and entered a "strange haze" filled with static electricity, with arcing from one observer's body to metal in the fuselage. After about 20 minutes the haze vanished, power returned and the crew restarted the engines; the aircraft had covered 305 miles in 45–50 minutes at an indicated airspeed of 184–218 knots. Eberhart cites NICAP, the APRO Bulletin (March 1981) and Haines and Weinstein's NARCAP Technical Report 3 (2001). 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.