Sorsogon, SE Luzon Island),
USAF Lt. leading a flight of 4 P-47 fighters of the 67th
Fighter Sq was flying S heading 180° at 1,500 ft altitude
when he saw a half-moon shaped "flying wing" about 30 ft
wide 20 ft long, with a barely perceptible dorsal fin, flying
on a N heading 360° at about 1,000 ft about 3 miles to his
his E [evidently silhouetted against the surface 9 miles
away at a depression angle of about 2°]. He immediately
made a 270° left turn to identify the object when it made a
90° left turn [banking evidently] leveled out on a W
heading 270° accelerating rapidly to disappearance in 5
secs, no trail [assuming 10x distance increase to reduce
apparent size below visual resolution limit, and constant
acceleration, terminal velocity would be about 11 miles
per second or 39,000 mph at about 350 g's].
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