Off Jacksonville, Florida: Piper crew sees gray triangle with six lights and an opening
At 3:00 a.m. on 27 October 1967, pilot Charlie Little and three others aboard a Piper Twin Comanche over the Atlantic northeast of Jacksonville, Florida, saw a gray equilateral triangle with six bright lights and a triangular central opening approach on a collision course.
Background
At 3:00 a.m. Charlie Little, pilot of a Piper Twin Comanche with two other pilots and a passenger aboard, was flying over the Atlantic northeast of Jacksonville, Florida. They saw a bright light that resolved into six huge, round, bright-white lights in a horizontal row on a darker object. It approached on a collision course and was seen to be a gray equilateral triangle with a triangular opening at its center. The object made an unbanked 180-degree turn, then took off and disappeared in a flash. Willy Smith described the case in the International UFO Reporter in 1984; Philip J. Klass replied with a letter in 1985, followed by a response from Little. 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.