Eastern Airlines

1950s-style illustration of a Douglas DC-4 Eastern Airlines aircraft flying at night near the Azores with an intensely bright orange-white pulsating light floating alongside it at dangerously close range, August 1956.

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Aircraft Encounters

1956: Near the Azores: The Light That Came Within 40 Feet of Eastern Airlines Flight 49

Published: September 26, 2026 | Updated: September 26, 2026

THINK ABOUTIT UFO|UAP SIGHTINGS REPORT 1956: Near the Azores — Eastern Airlines Flight 49: The Light That Came Within 40 Feet At 0145Z on...

Four-panel 1950s press-photo collage: a Venom jet with a light behind it over Lakenheath, an RCAF pilot photographing a disc over the Rockies, an Eastern Airlines DC-4 with a pulsating light at the window, and a Bornholm radar scope with four returns.

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1956 Sightings

1956: August UFO|UAP & Entity Sightings Archive

Published: June 5, 2016 | Updated: September 26, 2026

1956: August UFO|UAP & Entity Sightings Archive On the night of August 13-14, 1956, a radar contact first picked up by the Ground Controlled...