Word: stratus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spotted a Soviet MIG-17 fighter with six rockets under each wing soaring 200 ft. off the airliner's right wingtip. "He just sat there, where all the passengers could see him," said Pan Am Captain Tony Duff. When Duff's plane entered a convenient layer of stratus cloud, the MIG peeled off and vanished, but the maneuver was an obvious hint of what could come...