For
the last several days I have been engaged in a conversation with someone who
identifies himself as Parabunk. He analyzed the Coyne helicopter encounter and
provided what he believed to be a terrestrial solution for the case. You can
read his long report here:
You
can read my original post which inspired his (well, maybe not inspired to write
his report, but certainly inspired to mention it on this blog), and read our
discussion in the comments section here:
By
looking at both these articles, I think you’ll get a fairly accurate picture of
both his theory and my comments on it. I thought his theory interesting and
certainly does cover most of the information about the case, though he seems to
lean heavily on interviews conducted with First Lieutenant Arrigo Jezzi and seems
to reject those made by Captain Lawrence J. Coyne who was both the senior
officer present and the pilot in command of the aircraft.
The
point here, however, is something a little different. While I believe that I
came into this as an almost neutral observer, ready to examine the facts, I
also realize that my thinking might be colored by my personal experiences. On
the other hand, I think Parabunk might suffer from the same sort of narrowed
vision. To that end, I thought having the readers here take a look at both
arguments and append their comments to this post, we might move the discussion
forward.
I
believe that a good mix of skeptics and believers visit here on a regular basis
so that we might see some interesting comments. I think we can keep it cordial
(and I will delete anything that doesn’t fit into that ideal), which it should
be, and maybe provide some interesting insights into the case and possible
avenues for further research.
One
of the first places to start would be the “Disposition Form” dated 23 November
1973 because it provides the names of organizations that might have follow up
documents that could shed some light on the subject. It also mentions a near midair collision which seem to require an investigation by the FAA, even if it was with a UFO. And, because it was created
just a few weeks after the event, we have something that isn’t overly
influenced by all the discussion of so many over the last forty some years.
Let’s
see if this does provide us with some sort of insight to the event with an eye
to providing more information about it.
