Table of Contents

Discussion

Data Review

Conclusions

Previous Sighting

Reference

 

Discussion

The facts that 1) the red and bluish-green wingtip lights are not visible in pictures of the AOP as it moved away from the camera, 2) the landing lights are still visible from the rear, 3) the belly lights are clusters of small lights, and 4) the white lights become golden-colored when viewed from the rear, indicate that somebody tried to simulate the lights of a conventional aircraft.  But upon closer inspection, they didn't get it quite right.

Remember the saltatorial motion of the AOP when Cornet took time exposure #5?  When he got his prints back, he was stunned to see captured on film what his eyes had seen.  All the lights of the craft moved in unison as their movement clearly indicated a repeated back and forth looping pattern of the lights.  See below:

So, what was it?  The following picture, the first time exposure taken, shows something very unusual - something not visible in all the other time exposures. On either side of the central lights a repetitious pattern of golden brown light can be seen.  This pattern is perfectly duplicated on both sides of the central lights.  In other words, the pattern is symmetrical.  Is it too much to think that this pattern reflects some sort of electromagnetic pulsation caused by the propulsion system?  A similar pattern of ladder-like pulses was recorded for the FT described in The Illusion when it was directly above.

Below: Time exposure #1, chopper not used; note pulsating energy pattern on either side of the central lights.

Data Review

Let's review the data:

• AOP approaches Cornet as he is driving along NY I-87, and flashes its landing lights. Its altitude is below that of the top of Bear Mountain.

• AOP resembles a Boeing 707, but one without engine pods on its wings. It banks in front of Cornet and crosses highway below minimum legal altitude and below stall speed for that size of aircraft.

• AOP is solid black with no markings and no indication of glass windows. It makes a loud sound like that of a jetliner.

• AOP crosses NY Rte 17M three times at a distance of about 1/2 mile in front of Cornet, again below minimum legal altitude and below stall speed for that size of aircraft.

• AOP approaches Cornet as he makes an exit from Rte 17M onto Rte 211E, and stops in midair above him as he waits for light to change.

• AOP flies slowly ahead of Cornet as he drives towards his condo on Rte 211E, its altitude so low that its wings span the width of the road. Cornet is able to keep up with the AOP for a short distance in his car, and determines that its speed was only 45-50 mph.

• AOP returns twice again so that Cornet can photograph it as it flies over his head.

• AOP confirmation: Through the use of a chopper device Cornet is able to take measurements and calculate the speed of the AOP from his time exposures.  Its speed varied between 17.4 mph and 53 mph, in agreement with his previous observations.

Conclusions

Whatever followed Cornet home that evening was not a standard Boeing 707. The fact that it flashed its headlights and flew in front of Cornet seven times that evening certainly qualifies Cornet as the target of this performance.  The energy patterns on its belly and the loops it performed before his camera indicate an exotic form of propulsion and lift.  Its slow speed indicates that this AOP did not require wings to fly.  Thus, its resemblance to a Boeing aircraft either indicates that this was an experimental aircraft using a new type of propulsion system, or that its resemblance was intended as camouflage or for deception.

The fact that it singled out Cornet for its performance, and allowed Cornet to photograph it so many times, indicates both intent and purpose.  The military mindset does not include parading its top secret or new and advanced technologies before the public, let alone before an unsecured camera.  Consequently, either this performance was for the purpose of a covert human experiment with a strong psychological objective (hence, the Special Agent 707 title), or it was an overt non-human experiment with a strong awareness objective.  The first explanation is more easy for skeptics to accept, even if it is not strongly supported by the evidence.

Previous sighting

modified from Volume III, Abstract or Summary

Figure 2 Date: 23 June 1992. Time: 11:12 pm. Place: West Searsville Rd. next to the Wilde farm, northwest of Montgomery, NY. Witnesses: Bruce Cornet, Ellen Crystall, and four other people. On that night they witnessed a cigar-shaped craft possessing multicolored lights rising slowly and silently to the west of their location. This B&W photograph is the first of two taken of this AOP (Anomalistic Observational Phenomena) before it unfolded wings and turned on sound like that of a conventional jet.

Figure 3 The second of two time exposures showing the lights on a cigar-shaped AOP as wings unfolded, they moved apart, and the sound of a conventional jet was heard for the first time. The group of witnesses then jumped into their cars and gave chase down country roads, and caught up to this AOP after it stopped and hovered, apparently waiting for them. As they watched, this object, which now resembled an all black Boeing 707 without engines, swiveled around and flew over them back in the direction it came.

Was this the same AOP that followed Cornet home?  These were the only two days Cornet saw this all black AOP that resembled a Boeing 707: Once on 23 June 1992 and again (seven times) on 24 September 1992.

Reference

Rutledge, Harley D., 1981. Project identification, the first scientific field study of UFO phenomena, Prentice Hall Inc., Inglewood Cliffs, NJ.

 

 

 

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