The conversation turns to fractures in time, as Caidin recounts the story of a judge who landed on a fully equipped ghost airfield that later vanished without a trace. He describes his own harrowing experience flying through the Bermuda Triangle, where a mysterious yellow murk disabled two million dollars worth of electronics aboard a Catalina flying boat carrying fourteen Navy pilots. Caidin also discusses astronaut sightings, including cryptic statements from Neil Armstrong.
Art Bell opens the phone lines for callers to question Caidin about his investigations. Topics range from holographic technology and Area 51 to entities encountered by Marines in Vietnam.
Key Moments
WWI fighters dive through Battle of Britain dogfight: Caidin recounts a Battle of Britain incident where roughly 50 British pilots filed sworn affidavits seeing WWI SE-5a biplanes dive through their Spitfire and Hurricane formation at over 350 mph, attack the German bombers, and break up the formation - and the same day, German pilots saw WWI Fokkers and Albatroses do the identical thing to their Messerschmitts.
Judge Bacon lands on a phantom British airfield: A midwestern judge and pilot, Ken Bacon, gets caught in weather, lands at a paved field with about 150 British aircraft, finds half-eaten food, lights on, and not a single person on the base, takes off again, and on returning home is told by his own field staff 'so it's happened to you too' - the airfield does not exist on any chart.
B-17 lands itself with ten dead crewmen and no fuel: Caidin describes a B-17 returning to England after a German raid: all four engines die one by one, the airplane stays at formation speed, completes a full landing pattern with flaps and gear in front of 2,000 witnesses, taxis to its tie-down, and stops - whereupon ground crews open the hatch to find ten dead men and no fuel aboard. Caidin says he pulled the case from official Eighth Air Force combat files in Alabama.
Caidin's electronics-killing crossing of the Bermuda Triangle: Caidin describes flying a Catalina PBY back from the Azores in clear weather when the sky turns yellow, visibility drops to where he cannot see his wingtips, and two million dollars of new electronics roll over and die one by one - confirmed by his wife, another captain's wife, and 14 of the Navy's top pilots aboard - before the instruments come back to life as the airplane bursts out of the murk approaching Jacksonville.
B-17 tail section glides home alone after flak strike: A listener faxes the story of a B-17 tail gunner who lost contact with the rest of his crew after flak hit, decided not to crawl forward, and watched the airplane glide three times and land in a German field - only to discover, on climbing out, that there was no airplane, only the perfectly balanced tail section. Caidin confirms the story on the air and says he has seen photographs of the tail section in flight.