A Saudi Airlines jetliner encountered “a bright greenish object” while flying at 12,000 feet early Thursday morning, December 12, 1996. The encounter took place over the ocean about ten miles south of East Moriches, Long Island, New York.
According to the USA Radio News broadcast on Friday, the Saudi jetliner was coming into John F. Kennedy International Airport at 6 a.m. when the flight crew spotted “a greenish-white object with a long tail.” The object was traveling from east to west, the same bearing as the Boeing 747, but at a higher altitude.
According to the CNN report of the incident, the mysterious object was picked up on the Boeing 747’s cockpit radar set. “At least one crew member saw the object for about two seconds.”
The greenish-white UFO appeared in the upper right-hand corner of the windshield and zipped away, heading for the New Jersey coast, easily outrunning the jetliner.
TWA Flight 800, also a Boeing 747, exploded in mid-air in this same area back in July, killing all 230 people aboard.
In-mid November, a Pakistani Airlines Boeing 747 spotted a UFO traveling in a north-south trajectory. First Officer Nasir Aziz reportedly described it as “a dark object with four green lights.“
On Friday, James Kallstrom, FBI special agent in charge of the TWA 800 investigation, said “it was too early” to positively identify the object seen by the Saudi jetliner, but added that “it might have been one of the Geminid meteors.“
The Saudi sighting was the fourth UFO report to come out of Long Island since the crash of TWA 800 in July.
In related TWA 800 news, Brenda Roberts, producer of the syndicated TV show “Journey,” plans to do a show on the recent UFO sightings around Moriches Bay, Long Island. Ms. Roberts “entices, appeals to, encourages and begs” anyone living in that area who has video or still photos of Long Island UFOs to get in touch. The show will “document authentic sightings” in and around the TWA 800 crash zone. If you have any photos or videotape, contact Ms. Roberts at this address–broberts@nwlink.com
(Editor’s Comment: If the object registered on the cockpit radar, then it cannot have been higher than 100,000 feet. If it was a meteor, it should have been headed downward, not flying a parallel course toward the western horizon. Also, the time of the sighting–6 a.m. on December 12–was at least 37 hours before the actual start of the Geminid meteor shower at 7 p.m. on December 13. Will some mathematician please compute the odds of having two “meteors” flying at different trajectories passing through the same cubic mile of airspace within a period of three weeks? Thank you!)