Canton, Mississippi: Commercial pilot sees 40-foot cylinder pass slowly with turbine noise
At 9:00 p.m. on February 16, 1977, a commercial pilot standing outside his truck in Canton, Mississippi, watched a cylindrical object about 40 feet long pass a few hundred feet away at about 30 mph.
Background
At 9:00 p.m. on February 16, 1977, a commercial pilot standing outside his truck in Canton, Mississippi, watched a cylindrical object about 40 feet long pass alongside him a few hundred feet away at about 30 mph. It had one steady white light in front and made a noise like a wheezing turbine. After 5 minutes it receded into the west. The case appeared in the International UFO Reporter in April 1977. 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.