Captain Gordon Pendleton on witnessing a globular UFO during a flight from Cork to Brussels, 1962

Captain Gordon Pendleton was flying from Cork to Brussels on board the Aer Lingus plane St Colmcille when he came across the strange object. At first Gordon Pendleton thought it was an aircraft but as it got closer he saw that the object had no wings. He then thought it might be a meteorological balloon but realised that the speed it was travelling meant that it could not be a free balloon. Although difficult the describe the size of objects while in the air, he says it was smaller than a Viscount aircraft and was travelling at six to seven hundred miles an hour. Co-pilot Peter Murphy also witnessed it. (RTÉ News report, May 21, 1962)