Missing US Lightning pilot - RAF incident in the North Sea 1970

[Beafer]

BBC report into the search for the missing US exchange pilot Capt William Schaffner who was flying an RAF Lighting,

His sons have been searching for answer.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/insideout/yorkslincs/series1/alien-abduction.shtml

[caiman27]

That's an archived story from 2002!

John Nichol's recent book Eject! Eject! addresses this specific incident and totally shreds the UFO nonsense. Great book and highly recommended.

[SWBKCB]

And here from May this year

https://www.pprune.org/military-aviation/652740-schaffner-lightning-incident-news.html

[T28B]

If I may follow up on caiman27's post: there is more discussion here (https://www.pprune.org/military-aviation/652743-eject-eject-john-nichol.html?highlight=Eject#post11435009), on the PPRuNe Military Aviation forum.