What really happened to Captain Bill Schaffner? This film contains new analysis based on the available evidence. Its purpose is to explain the engineering and circumstances of the accident—not to promote conspiracy theories or UFO claims. For more than fifty years, his disappearance over the North Sea from RAF Binbrook has fuelled rumours, speculation and even UFO theories. But what does the evidence actually tell us? In this episode of Outside the Envelope, we reconstruct the final minutes of Captain Bill Schaffner’s last flight in his English Electric Lightning as he tried to find a RAF Shackleton at night. Using engineering, aerodynamics and the official evidence, we examine why the aircraft crashed, why the wreckage was found where it was… and perhaps the biggest mystery of all… Why wasn’t Bill Schaffner found with it? Along the way we’ll look at the famous E.E. Lightning F6, “Sa

Source: The Jet That Became a UFO: The Forensic Truth