Alexandria-Leesville crash / retrieval report — July 27, 1967

At 2:00 a.m. on July 27, 1967 at Alexandria-Leesville, Louisiana, United States, EDT. Throughout several states, distress calls were heard on Citizen's Band radio from a pilot whose plane reportedly crashed. The pilot said that a red glowing object with a bright glow toward the tail approached the side of the aircraft and then the tail, forcing the aircraft down. (Shreveport Times, LA., 7/28/67, copy in NICAP files.).