Alien Base: The Evidence for Extraterrestrial Colonization of Earth – COLLISION COURSE
‘Suddenly, the lights went out,’ continued Benton. ‘There appeared a yellow halo on the water. It turned to an orange, to a fiery red, and then started movement toward us at a fantastic speed, turning to a blueish red around the perimeter.’
Due to its high speed, its direction of travel, and its size, it looked as though we were going to be engulfed. I quickly disengaged the automatic-pilot and stood by to push the nose of the plane over, in hopes that we could pass under it due to the angle it was ascending. The relief crew was standing behind us; everyone began ducking, and a few heads were hit on objects.
It stopped its movement toward us and began moving along with us about 45 degrees off the bow to the right, about 100 feet or so below us and about 200 to 300 feet in front of us. It was not in a level position; it was tilted about 25 degrees. It stayed in this position for a minute or so. It appeared to be from 200 to 300 feet in diameter, translucent or metallic, shaped like a saucer, a purple-red fiery ring around the perimeter and a frosted white glow around the entire object The purple-red glow around the perimeter was the same type of glow you get around the commutator of an auto-generator when you observe it at night.
When the object moved away from us, it made no turns, as though it was backing up about 170 degrees from the direction it approached us, and was still tilted. It was only a few seconds before it was out of sight. [Speed estimated in excess of 1,500 m.p.h.] All of our cameras were within reach, but no one was calm enough to think about taking a picture. Most of us were wondering what it was. Our impression was that it was a controlled craft. It was either hovering over the water or sitting on it, then it detected us and came up to investigate.