UFOs REPORTED ON DAY OF TWA 800 CRASH

July 28, 1996
Source: UFO roundup
An unidentified flying object was seen by a couple in Johnston, Rhode Island 45 minutes before the explosion that downed TWA Flight 800.

At 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, July 17, 1996, Richard and Fran Shea of Manville, R.I. were driving north on Interstate Route 295 when they saw the UFO. They reported their sighting in a letter to the editor. (Providence, R.I. Journal-Bulletin, July 24, 1996, page B-7) The Sheas wrote, "We would just like to know if anybody driving north on Route 295 on July 17 at about 7:30 p.m. saw an object in the sky to the northeast. It first appeared as gray, then disappeared and quickly reappeared as silvery. It was not an airplane. Was there anybody else out there who saw this?"

Route 295 is six miles west of Providence and approximately 70 air miles northeast of the TWA Flight 800 crash site south of Islip, N.Y. Thirty minutes after the Shea sighting, five people in Toronto saw a UFO near Lester Pearson International Airport. The four are amateur researchers and members of MUFON Ontario. The quartet was in the neighborhood of Eglinton Avenue West at the time.

According to eyewitness Susan K., "On Wednesday, July 17, between 8:00 and 8:30 p.m., I saw a white object in the sky that was not a vapour trail, helicopter, blimp, bird or plane. At first the other three people I was with said it was part of a jet's tail. The view was of the west toward Toronto's airport. I kept watching it and was convinced it was none of these. They became curious when I kept insisting they look again. We are UFO investigators and could not label it. It took approximately 20 minutes to reach the airport, which usually takes five (minutes) for conventional aircraft. There were many planes in the sky, but this thing just sauntered across the sky. It was cylindrical shaped, at arm's length about one-quarter inch, with no lights."

(Note: The flight path of Susan's UFO would have taken it past Canadian Forces Base (CFB) Downsview, between Sheppard and Wilson Avenues.)

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