Word: lanier
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Just before dawn, at an altitude of 33,000 ft., Pan American Airways Flight 2 was about 550 miles out of Tokyo, bound for Honolulu. "Suddenly I saw what appeared to be a bright star with a gaseous-appearing halo, elliptical in shape," said Captain H. Lanier Turner. "But right away I could see it was moving, and I judged it to be an ICBM, or something the Russians were trying to put in orbit...