Hailey, Idaho: Pilot sees five orange objects, compass, radio and engine disturbed

At 12:05 a.m., Jim Gallagher, piloting a private airplane at about 10,000 feet near Hailey, Idaho, spotted five orange objects flying in a horizontal line. They tilted, spread out and regrouped in a vertical formation. As they passed to his left, his magnetic compass and direction finder began spinning, the radio filled with static and the engine sputtered. One of the objects approached at high speed; the pilot began a climb and lost sight of the objects. NICAP, the MUFON UFO Journal and Richard F. Haines's Project Delta record the case. 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.