Jack E. Puckett

Jack E. Puckett, likely Capt. Jack Puckett, served as Flying Safety Officer at Headquarters, Tactical Air Command, 300th Base Unit, and reported a cigar-shaped UFO sighting near an Air Force transport, as documented in NICAP records and CIA files. A U.S. national and military officer, his key contribution to UAP research was this firsthand eyewitness account of an unidentified aerial object, highlighting military encounters with anomalous phenomena. No specific birth or death years, publications, or further achievements in UFO programs are detailed in available sources. Note: Search results extensively cover Jack D. Pickett (d. 2008), a Wyoming UFO researcher who attributed sightings to experimental U.S. military aircraft after observing disc-shaped craft at MacDill AFB in 1967; he authored 'Flying Saucers - For Real' (Search Magazine, 1982) and conducted decades of research, but he appears distinct from Puckett.