Gerald Naekel
ASIN: B00B8DTDTC
Publisher: Amazon.com Services LLC
Pages: 22
This is a shortened excerpt, a chapter event, from a much longer Kindle book, "MOHAWKS LOST - Flying in the CIA's Secret War in Laos." So keep that in mind before you drop a dollar or so on this. Otherwise, I would have it free here if I could.During my two combat flying tours, and over 500 missions in Laos and North Vietnam, this was surely one of the most bazaar flight events. Not the most dangerous, but something out of the ordinary to be sure. I was flying a Grumman OV-1B Mohawk just off the coast of North Vietnam, at night, on a combat mission to run a SLAR track up the coast looking for truck traffic. A UFO, or whatever It was, was first thought to be a MiG that had come out of North Vietnam and down the coast at over 2,000 mph--and then suddenly nearly stops and is sitting off my wing during radar directed evasive maneuvers.As the UFO came south, excited Navy controllers launched ...