June 3, 1957 — Shreveport, LA
9:35 p.m. Shortly after takeoff from Shreveport (Louisiana) Airport, Capt. Lynn Kern and Flight Officer Abbey Zimmerman, flying Trans-Texas Airlines Flight 103, are told by the control tower that a small light is visible nearby. They see the star-like, blue-green object at about 400 feet altitude. It then climbs rapidly to 1,000 feet and parallels the airliner at a higher altitude and about a half-mile away. Kern flashes his landing lights, and the object responds with a beam of light. A second blue-green, pulsating object joins the first on the opposite side of the airliner (then at 9,000 feet). A crew from the air tower confirms that it has both objects on radar and visually through binoculars. The objects head south, climbing to about 10,000 feet, and follow the airliner to Converse, Louisiana, where the pilot queries ADC radar site, England AFB [now Alexandria International Airport], which confirms the two targets in the airliner’s vicinity. The objects disappear from sight in a cloud deck to the southwest. [Eberhart]
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Sources:
Brad Sparks, Blue Books Unknowns Catalogue, Case 1235, p. 244;
J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, pp. 94–96;
Jerome Clark, The UFO Encyclopedia, 3rd Ed., p. 997;
Jerome Clark, The UFO Encyclopedia, 4th Ed., p. 1110
NICAP, “Flight 103 & 2 UFOs Tracked on Radar”;
