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Welcome to bite-sized UFOs, a show where we break down lesser-known UFO cases in 20 minutes or less.

And now here's your host, Graham Rendell.

Welcome to episode eight of bite-sized UFOs.

I'm Graham Rendell, author of UFOs Before Roswell and other books about pilot and aircrew sightings during the 1940s and 1950s.

In this installment of bite-sized UFOs, let's look at an interesting case from April 1948 that occurred over the Philippines and involved a flight of F-47 Thunderbolt aircraft.

At around 095 hours on the morning of the 1st of April,

1948, Lieutenant Robert Myers was leading a flight of four F-47 Thunderbolts

from the 67th Fighter Squadron, 15th Fighter Group,

on a routine training flight over the southeastern region of Luzon, the largest of the islands that make up the Philippines.

He and his colleagues were some nine miles southeast of Sosurgan when their UFO sighting occurred.

The F-47 was the post-war designation given to the wartime P-47 Thunderbolt, a sturdy piston-engine fighter aircraft

that was often nicknamed the Jog. Although not as well known as the P-51 Mustang, Thunderbolts

had served on all fronts during the war with various Allied air forces, in addition to the US Army

Air Force. It was still a reasonably fast airplane for 1948 and would

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