Joseph P. Jablonski Interview, 22 February 2005
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| JJ: | Well, I actually had to give them coordinates because, when they got above the site, because they normally scrambled the fighters for stuff like that—and the fact that they sent the 52, the 52 was coming in from Guam or someplace. I mean a 52 is big. By the time the 52 turned this thing was, it was over here (points far right), and then I'd give one coordinate, and then the thing was over here (points far left) and they knew this thing was playing games with them. So the adrenaline was pumping... | |
| TT: | Yeah, I'm just trying to visualize what you... | |
| JJ: | ...but as far as... | |
| TT: | Do you have a clear visual of what it was you were seeing? I suppose you were so excited at the time it's hard to... | |
| JJ: | Well whatever it was, you couldn't make the shape out. It was long and slender you know (gestures long, slender shape) with lots of lights on it, but they had in the debriefing that it was the size of a 52 with a tanker—it had come up on base radar as that big. But the thing of it was the lights, which were alternating, I mean they were bright white to a, like an amber-red and to a green, back... | |
| TT: | If you're seeing it right now how big in the sky was it—what would you compare it to? | |
| JJ: | Like I said... | |
| TT: | ..a nut or a grapefruit or a basketball? | |
| JJ: | Oh, it was bigger than that, I mean... | |
| TT: | So relative to your perception it was... | |
| JJ: | It was like the size of the 52. I mean but you couldn't make, as far as shape, you know 'saucer-like,' whatever, it was oblong (gesturing) I'd say, slender with lots of lights on it. | |
| TT: | Lots of lights, explain that. | |
| JJ: | Well (gestures upward, circles hand), bright lights. Now these lights that I saw coming off of it while we were going down there were like what you were saying—small you know, almost like shooting stars but they weren't because they were actually maneuvering (gestures curving paths), and they were going towards (pointing) that direction of Oscar Flight. | |
| TT: | Oh, they were. So they were going up north. | |
| JJ: | Yeah. | |
| TT: | So this object you were seeing in the south- southeast—or what was the direction? | |
| JJ: | In the southeast, I'd say. | |
| TT: | Yeah, and so those objects would have been going to the east of you up north maybe? | |
| JJ: | Yeah. And he saw them too, but he didn't want to see them (laughs). I said, "Look at what's going on!" I mean... | |
| TT: | So those little objects did they just disappear, or did they come back? | |
| JJ: | They faded out. But there were so many of them |
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