(EST) Capt. Raymond E. Ryan, First Officer William Neff, flight attendant Phyllis Reynolds, and passengers, took off in an airliner from Albany heading north then nearly due west (about 280° True) at 260 mph and 6,000 feet north of Schenectady when a brilliant white light about two to three miles away was spotted about 90° to the left appearing like an airliner heading in to land at Albany. The white light moved about 90° to dead-ahead position about 8-10 miles away at high speed estimated at about 800-1,000 mph where it changed color to orange and seemed to block the airliner's path or risk collision, disappeared briefly, reappeared as an orange light again but standing still ahead of the airliner to the west. Airliner contacted Griffiss AFB, Rome, New York, where controllers asked pilot to turn lights off and on to help identify aircraft and was told airliner was seen and the orange UFO to the S. Airliner was ordered to maintain course to follow the UFO to the west, skipping its scheduled landing at Syracuse after nearly 30 minutes of following the object. Promised fighter jet interception was not seen. Object disappeared at high speed to the northwest towards Oswego, New York.

One orange light was observed by over six male military witnesses, typical age 43, in-flight for over 30 minutes (Reynolds, Phyllis; Ryan, Raymond E; Neff, William).

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