Melbourne, Florida: Four white ovals pace two Cessna training planes, then shoot upward
At 6:00 p.m. on 26 November 1968 two flight instructors and two student pilots in Cessna 150s flying from Winter Haven toward Melbourne, Florida, were paced by four white oval objects in echelon formation, which shot upward at about 2,000 mph when one pilot turned toward them.
Background
Two flight instructors, L. P. Duplantis and Robert Holder, and two student pilots in Cessna 150 aircraft were flying between Winter Haven and Melbourne, Florida, when they saw four objects in echelon formation about 6,000 feet to their right at 1,500 feet altitude. The objects were white ovals and seemed to be the size of C-130 military transports. After 10 minutes one descended close to the ground while the others continued to pace the planes. About 10 miles from Melbourne one pilot banked toward the objects, which took off upward at 2,000 mph and disappeared. Eberhart cites Florida Today of 27 November 1968, the APRO Bulletin and NICAP's UFO Investigator. 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.