Charleston, West Virginia: FAA radar and Braniff Flight 42 crew track flaming object
At 4:30 a.m. on 4 May 1966, an FAA controller at Charleston, West Virginia, tracked a non-transponding target while the crew of Braniff Flight 42 at 33,000 feet saw a white-blue object with flaming multicolored light approach to 3 miles and turn away at high speed.
Background
At 4:30 a.m. an FAA air traffic controller at Charleston, West Virginia, tracked an unidentified non-transponding target for about 5 miles. The crew of Braniff Airline Flight 42, heading east at 33,000 feet, saw a white-blue object giving off brilliant, flaming light of alternating white, green and red. Radar showed the object veering 8–10 miles away at the 10 o'clock position, then approaching the airliner to a distance of 3 miles. It then made a 180° left turn to the northwest within a diameter of 5 miles at 1,000 mph, which the Braniff crew confirmed as the object descended from 20° above the horizon. Eberhart cites NICAP, Hynek's The UFO Experience and Martin Shough's radar catalogue for NARCAP. 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.