1965 Interview: Pioneer Aviator Witnessing a “Tic Tac” UFO During His 1931 Flight from New Zealand to Australia

1965 Interview: Pioneer Aviator Witnessing a “Tic Tac” UFO During His 1931 Flight from New Zealand to Australia

Sir Francis Chichester in a 1965 interview: “He had a perfect shape, he had…a more pearl-like shape…with a tail. And I looked at this thing and suddenly it disappeared. And I was… I thought, am I seeing things? I had a very exhausting flight. I had been waiting… I had engine trouble, and I had been waiting for hours waiting to get into the sea, you know.”

However, suddenly this thing reappeared coming towards me. Well, this time I’m not going to let it go! I kept my gaze fixed on her and she was getting closer pretty fast, and then suddenly, rather gradually, she started to thin out and she disappeared in front of me…

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She got closer, but instead of increasing the size of her, she decreased as she got closer,” she said. Did he see something otherworldly or was it some kind of mirage on the horizon? Unfortunately, we will never know how far it was from Earth, and how high or close the object was on the horizon.”

From his book “The Lonely Sea and the Sky”:

“Around the storm we fly into calm air under a weak lazy sun. I pulled out the sextant and got two takes. It took me thirty minutes to calculate them, since the engine did not stop backfiring and my attention was diverted every time it did…

Suddenly, ahead and thirty degrees to the left, there were bright flashes in several places, like the glare from a heliograph. I saw a greyish-white aircraft approaching me. It seemed impossible, but I could have sworn it was an airship approaching me like an oval pearl. Except for one or two clouds, there was nothing else in the sky.

I looked around, occasionally catching a flash or glow, and looking back at the aircraft found it had disappeared. I squinted, unable to believe it, and turned the seaplane this way and that, thinking that the aircraft must be obscured by a blind spot. The dazzling flashes continued at four or five different places, but I couldn’t make out any aircraft.

Then, through some clouds to my right, I saw another, or the same, aircraft moving forward. I watched it carefully, determined not to take my eyes off it for even a fraction of a second: I would see what would happen to this one, if I had to chase it. It came steadily closer, until it was a mile away, when it suddenly vanished. Then it reappeared, close to where it had disappeared: I watched it with furious attention. He came closer, and I could see the dull glow of light on his nose and on his back. It came closer, but instead of increasing in size, it dwindled as it came closer. When he got close enough, he suddenly became his own ghost: one second he could see through it, the next it was gone. I decided that it could only be a tiny cloud, that it had the perfect shape of an airship and then dissolved, but it was strange that it would return to exactly the same shape after it had vanished.

I turned to the sparkles, but they, too, had faded. All this happened many years before there was talk of flying saucers. Whatever I saw, it appears to be very close to what people have since claimed are flying saucers.”

 

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