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2nd October 2015, 17:23
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Warren Botz is a retired WWII P-40 Warhawk Flying Tigers pilot, with over 30,000 hours of flight time in 119 different types of aircraft.
In September of 1978, Warren was attending a reunion with his fellow pilots and their wives, at Wright Patterson AFB. A medium size group of about 62 people including Warren, were transported by bus across the base to where the restoration hangar is located. It's here that various older aircraft are processed, and made ready for the Air Force Museum.
http://www.oocities.org/usafflyingsaucers/32.jpg
Arriving at hangar #4, the group departed the bus, and began walking through each of the hangars by way of a connecting doorway. Warren momentarily departed from his group, and managed to walk through the door of hangar #4 bay "E". Taking up the entire hangar, was a large, 116-foot-diameter man-made flying saucer; the identical craft Jack Pickett saw at MacDill AFB in 1967:
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Retired WWII combat veteran and publisher Jack D. Pickett, was informed that the four discs parked at the scrap area were the very last of their kind, and were awaiting orders to either be scrapped or flown/transported to Offutt AFB for storage for the yet-to-be-completed Air Force Museum.
Jack described the fuselage as looking like someone cut a DC-6 in half horizontally along the centerline, and then "dropped" this section directly on the top portion of the disc:
http://www.ufowisconsin.com/news/newsgraphics/Jetdisc.jpg
Source: http://www.ufowisconsin.com/news/n2003_02xx_flyingsaucersforreal.html
Warren Botz is a retired WWII P-40 Warhawk Flying Tigers pilot, with over 30,000 hours of flight time in 119 different types of aircraft.
In September of 1978, Warren was attending a reunion with his fellow pilots and their wives, at Wright Patterson AFB. A medium size group of about 62 people including Warren, were transported by bus across the base to where the restoration hangar is located. It's here that various older aircraft are processed, and made ready for the Air Force Museum.
http://www.oocities.org/usafflyingsaucers/32.jpg
Arriving at hangar #4, the group departed the bus, and began walking through each of the hangars by way of a connecting doorway. Warren momentarily departed from his group, and managed to walk through the door of hangar #4 bay "E". Taking up the entire hangar, was a large, 116-foot-diameter man-made flying saucer; the identical craft Jack Pickett saw at MacDill AFB in 1967:
lIUZIH4fhHk
Retired WWII combat veteran and publisher Jack D. Pickett, was informed that the four discs parked at the scrap area were the very last of their kind, and were awaiting orders to either be scrapped or flown/transported to Offutt AFB for storage for the yet-to-be-completed Air Force Museum.
Jack described the fuselage as looking like someone cut a DC-6 in half horizontally along the centerline, and then "dropped" this section directly on the top portion of the disc:
http://www.ufowisconsin.com/news/newsgraphics/Jetdisc.jpg
Source: http://www.ufowisconsin.com/news/n2003_02xx_flyingsaucersforreal.html