Thread: Lawn Chair Larry

This is old news but it was an interesting flashback read with more details than I remember reading about at the time.


-On July 2, 1982, Delta and TWA airline pilots were stunned as they began their descents into Los Angeles International Airport and radioed in a UFO. They claimed to a mystified control tower that the unidentified object appeared to be a man seated in an aluminum lawn chair with a pistol in his hand, cruising along at 16,000 feet.

They were absolutely correct — the UFO was 33-year-old Larry Walters, fulfilling a childhood dream which ultimately took his life — but not in the way one may initially think. "When he went up into the clouds, and heard engines of planes, and he couldn't see them, and they couldn't see him, he went 'oh my goodness,'" the lawn chair-riding pilot's fiancé later told a UPI reporter.

It was the understatement of 1982, and possibly the decade...

The strange, sad odyssey of 'Lawn Chair Larry' | by Dale M. Brumfield | Lessons from History | Medium

I love that story. What a ride he had.

Awesome! Made my day!

I haven't read it yet, but I assume the gun was to shoot the balloons when he wanted to come down.

Originally Posted by fuego

I haven't read it yet, but I assume the gun was to shoot the balloons when he wanted to come down.

Ka-Boom. Got it.

Incredible and he survived

They made a movie down here about a guy doing similar, now I wonder if they got the inspiration from this story - Danny Deckchair - Wikipedia

Originally Posted by krystian

This is old news but it was an interesting flashback read with more details than I remember reading about at the time.


-On July 2, 1982, Delta and TWA airline pilots were stunned as they began their descents into Los Angeles International Airport and radioed in a UFO. They claimed to a mystified control tower that the unidentified object appeared to be a man seated in an aluminum lawn chair with a pistol in his hand, cruising along at 16,000 feet.

They were absolutely correct — the UFO was 33-year-old Larry Walters, fulfilling a childhood dream which ultimately took his life — but not in the way one may initially think. "When he went up into the clouds, and heard engines of planes, and he couldn't see them, and they couldn't see him, he went 'oh my goodness,'" the lawn chair-riding pilot's fiancé later told a UPI reporter.

It was the understatement of 1982, and possibly the decade...

The strange, sad odyssey of 'Lawn Chair Larry' | by Dale M. Brumfield | Lessons from History | Medium

LOL....he made a lot of false assumptions. LOL

Originally Posted by Quest

LOL....he made a lot of false assumptions. LOL

Especially his rate of descent. Probably a good thing he fumbled his airgun overboard or he could have come down quicker than he calculated.

Originally Posted by Cardinal TT

They made a movie down here about a guy doing similar, now I wonder if they got the inspiration from this story - Danny Deckchair - Wikipedia

Umm...I would say yes.

"It was inspired by the story of the Lawnchair Larry flight."

Originally Posted by diakonos777

I was in Germany then in the Army, wow, never heard about this, thx, good read. I could just see Feugo shaking his head a I read it, Lol,,,,

Lol...since Fuego always wanted to fly I can picture him in his chair in that old long hair photo of his sailing across the sky.

Originally Posted by krystian

Lol...since Fuego always wanted to fly I can picture him in his chair in that old long hair photo of his sailing across the sky.

Still have that pic Fuego?