Helicopter Crash Witnessed From 2,500 Miles Away

The full story is one of a collection of 27 short stories by John Powell Riley, titled BEHIND THE FRONT DOOR.

The crash was reported by Larry King in a NASA press release on 9-11-81 that appeared in late editions of the San Francisco press. But John P. Riley says he saw it in clear detail in a dream like no other -- A dream that was not a dream," as he puts it. He was on a flight to San Francisco via Chicago and Albuquerque that departed from Rochester, NY at 5 a.m.

Riley says he fell into a deep sleep shortly after takeoff. He soon began to hear and see in vivid detail a helicopter flying low above him. In this vision, he was walking along a highway with a large body of water on his right The helicopter circled once at low altitude, then went on its way following the road. He had seen the two men in it clearly. When it was about a half mile farther on, it suddenly fell straight down like a rock and crashed in the middle of the highway, but did not burst into flame. A broken rotor came whirling down the highway.

Nearly unbelievable, but Riley maintains it is absolutely true.
That night he heard a witness quoted on radio, saying, It fell straight down like a rock, but did not burst into flames" – the exact words he had been using all day. On the front page of the San Francisco Chronicle was a picture of the rotor blade that had whirled down the highway.. An even bigger shock came when he saw the time of the crash – 8:26 a.m. P.S.T. The time he had recorded in his notebook was 5:26 a.m. E.S.T. – which would be 2:36 a.m. P.S.T. -- six hours before the actual crash.

The full story is one of a collection of 27 short stories by John Powell Riley, titled BEHIND THE FRONT DOOR. It has just been released by PublishAmerica (ISBN 1-59286-470-8). See Rileys web site at: http://www.JohnPowellRiley.com.

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