Mercury Astronaut Donald Slayton’s UFO Sighting

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简介：水星计划宇航员唐纳德·斯莱顿在采访中透露，他于1951年驾驶P-51战斗机时目击了一个不明飞行物。起初以为是风筝或气象气球，但该物体突然以45度角爬升并加速消失，速度远超当时战机。这一事件成为宇航员公开UFO目击的经典案例。

Donald Slayton, a Mercury astronaut, revealed in an interview he had seen UFOs in 1951: “I was testing a P-51 fighter in Minneapolis when I spotted this object. I was at about 10,000 feet on a nice, bright, sunny afternoon. I thought the object was a kite, then I realized that no kite is gonna fly that high.” As I got closer it looked like a weather balloon, grey and about three feet in diameter. But as soon as I got behind the darn thing it didn’t look like a balloon anymore. It looked like a saucer, a disk. About the same time, I realized that it was suddenly going away from me – and there I was, running at about 300 miles per hour. I tracked it for a little way, and then all of a sudden the damn thing just took off. It pulled about a 45 degree climbing turn and accelerated and just flat disappeared.”