NUFORC Sighting 96447
Occurred: 2013-02-23 11:00 LocalReported: 2013-02-27 07:55 Pacific
Duration: 1 minute
No of observers: 3
Location: Grand Canyon, AZ, USA
Shape: Cigar
Characteristics: Left a trail
Black craft over Grand Canyon/white craft over Beverly Hills
I was returning from a business trip with two colleagues on Alaska Airlines from DC to LA. Over the Grand Canyon, I saw a black craft shaped like a bullet going at an amazing speed in the opposite direction very close to our airplane leaving a trail of thick black smoke behind it.
A few minutes later, an identical craft with the same black trail went by. I would concede it may have been a military plane, but thing that bothers me is that the smoke trail dissipated at the exact same speed as the craft, as if it were a part of it. If a military plane were emitting black smoke from burning oil, it would have left a trail across the sky.
What my friends couldn't see because I was in the window seat is just before the second craft left my view, I saw it tilt upward and the black smoke trail disappeared in a split second.
The crazier part of the story is that when I returned home, I was telling my son the story while looking out the window of our home in Beverly Hills, CA. I saw two brilliant white planes flying towards us. I didn't think anything of it until the one on the right just disappeared, then the one on the left made a perfectly tight loop in the air, then disappeared. It was a manoeuvre that would be impossible with a plane, and it was close enough that I could tell it was not a helicopter.
This was at about 3pm on 2/24/13.
And that's my UFO story.
NUFORC Note:
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
Posted 2013-02-28
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