This article was published in the daily newspaper The New York Times, USA, on February 26, 1959.
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DETROIT, Feb. 25 (AP) -- The pilot of an American Airlines DC-6 passenger plane said today that three mysterious object that looked like shining saucers appeared to accompany the plane for forty-five minutes last night on its nonstop flight from Newark, N.J., to Detroit.
Capt. Peter Killian of Syosset, L.I., said other members of the crew and the thirty-five passengers also saw the flying objects. The plane left Newark at 7:10 P.M.
Captain Killian and Co-pilot John Dee of Nyacek, N.Y., said they lost the three objects in the haze.
Captain Killian said he radioed two other American Airlines planes flying in the vicinity of his ship to make sure "I wasn't seeing lightning bugs in the cockpit." He said both other captains radioed back that they had seen the flying objects too.
