April 27, 1950 — Goshen, IN
8:25 p.m. TWA Flight 117 pilot Capt. Robert Adickes and Flight Officer Robert F. Manning are flying near Goshen, Indiana, when they see a bright-red disc-shaped UFO behind their DC-3.
It overtakes the plane in about 2 minutes. Stewardess Gloria Henshaw and 11 passengers (including Boeing engineers C. H. Jenkins and Dean C. Bourland and executives E. J. Fitzgerald and S. N. Miller) also see the object. It veers off at 400 mph, drops down to 1,500 feet, and disappears. [Eberhart]
Sources:
“TWA Pilot Races Fireball In Flight,” Long Beach (Calif.) Press-Telegram, April 28, 1950, p. 4;
https://www.newspapers.com/article/press-telegram-longbeachpress-telegram/193267159/
“Airline Pilot Witnesses ‘Saucer’ Near South Bend,” Clifton Forge (Virg.) Daily Review, April 28, 1950, p. 1;
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-daily-review-cliftonforgedailyrev/193267191/
“Two TWA Pilots See Flying Disc in Indiana,” Denver Rocky Mountain News, April 29, 1950, p. 13;
https://www.coloradohistoricnewspapers.org/?a=d&d=RMD19500429-01.2.49&e=-------en-20--1--img-txIN|txCO|txTA--------0------
Donald E. Keyhoe, “Flight 117 and the Flying Saucer,” True, August 1950, pp. 24–25, 75–79;
Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers From Outer Space, pp. 145-148;
Brad Sparks, Blue Book Unknowns Catalogue, Case 368, p. 89;
Loren E. Gross, UFOs, a History: Volume 6, April–July 1950, The Author, 1990, pp. 37-38;
James E. McDonald, “Statement on Unidentified Flying Objects,” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, pp. 46–47;
NICAP, “Adickes TWA DC-3 Case”;