Suad Hamzic has a unique background, before becoming a jet pilot he joined the Yugoslav Air Force Academy and the RAF university faculty in Great Britain.
In 1980, he went to the United States, where he worked evaluating the F-5 fighters. From 1986 to 1990, he served as a military attaché in the armed forces of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in Turkey until retiring as a colonel in 1993.
Hamzic reported that authorities are “generally restrained, incomplete, vague and mysterious, which complicates any rational debate about UFOs.”
However, he says that authorities in the army, and in particular the Air Force, cannot ignore that something exists, because many of their most advanced fighter jets have not been able to compete with the unidentified objects and that when he was a pilot of fighters, these encounters occurred repeatedly over the southern Adriatic Sea.
He also says that there are many reports made by highly credible people. Along with his own personal experiences, these are the reasons why Hamzic says he is convinced that these objects are not optical phenomena, fiction, hallucinations, or something like.
His first encounter with a UFO was in the spring of 1972, in the early afternoon. He was flying a MIG-21, on a routine reconnaissance flight, in the Delcina region. The jet had two seats and in the back was Captain Stipic Dusan. When they took off, they were asked to find out something. When they flew to the coordinates, they saw a very luminous object.
Hamzic could not determine the object’s altitude, but knew it was much higher than they were. Due to the fact that this was a reconnaissance flight, they were not equipped with the appropriate equipment to fly at high altitude or at speeds greater than Mach 1.6 (2000 km/h).
The pilot began to climb to look at the object that grew larger and larger as they approached. It climbed to 13,000 feet flying at a speed of Mach 1.4, but they still could not be sure of the UFO’s altitude. Then, the object accelerated westward, decreasing in size and luminosity, and then disappearing.
Hamzic said he and Stipic talked about the sighting for some time but did not discuss the event with anyone else, not even their colleagues. They did not make an official report and considered the event only as part of their work.
A few months later, on a summer day, Hamzic had his second sighting. He was enjoying the day, lying on a park bench looking at the sky, the place was full of pilots, technicians and other members of the Reconnaissance Squadron.
Then, he noticed a round, silver object on one of the landing strips. He thought it was too early for them to launch weather balloons, but he still assumed it would be one. He realized that the object was rising, as it should, but suddenly he saw that it was not a balloon and shouted for everyone to see.
Everyone looked up and some of the people made jokes about aliens. He said most people didn’t pay much attention, but some continued to look at the object. It remained hovering in the air. Then, similar to what had happened a few months earlier, the object began to move west and accelerated, losing sight of it.
The few people who were observing the object were intrigued, but there was little to be said. Hamzic says that shortly afterwards a weather balloon was released and it rose into the sky as it should.
His third meeting was in late 1973, during a night training flight. After training they asked him if he had enough fuel to find out something. He said yes and when he arrived at the coordinates he saw a very bright light.
At first he thought it was a commercial aircraft, but after examining the object, he changed his opinion, as the light changed color between light green, yellow and slightly purple. Then he lost sight of the object in the clouds. Again, he says that no one wanted to talk about what was seen.
Hamzic reports that after leaving the Army he had other sightings and still recalls strange lights on two occasions, once in 2008 and once in 2011.
Each time he watched the news to find out if other people had seen the lights, but the sightings were never mentioned. Everything was treated as if it had never happened.
