CNN CNN Special Report July 16, 2014 04:06:00
16,000 feet headed out over the water. it was dusk around 8:30 in the evening. you could see a long ways, a good 50, 60, 70 miles or more. i saw this flight departing out of jfk with a bright light kind of, yellowish in colors and i mentioned to my first officer and we thought that possibly might have been a fire boot. wasn't no smoke or anything and it was probably the landing light. they were crossing our flight path, moving from the right to the left so we had a very good sight of them and were about 13 mile ace head of us and i flicked on the landing lights to let them know i saw them and ...