Names / Person

Martin Shough

Person 17 stories, 1665 to 2007

Martin Shough analysed radar and visual UFO cases. Several of his studies appeared as NARCAP technical reports. His NARCAP radar catalogue, RADCAT, begins on the date of the 1948 Fukuoka F-61 intercept. In that catalogue he rejected Venus and radar malfunction as explanations for the 1952 Goose Bay sightings. In 2010 he wrote for NARCAP that the BOAC flying jellyfish of 1954 might have been an unusual mirage. With David Clarke he interviewed the Lakenheath-Bentwaters aircrew. In 2008 he co-authored the Alderney study in the Journal of Scientific Exploration. That team could not satisfactorily explain Captain Ray Bowyer's two objects.

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The 1665 Air Battle of Stralsund and the Dark Disc over St. Nicholas Church
April 8, 1665 · Off the Gellen and over St. Nicholas Church, Stralsund, Swedish Pomerania (now Mecklenburg-Vorpommern)
Germany
UAP · Disc / saucer · 31 sources
21Thinly documented

Researcher, co-author of Return to Magonia

Pro early
Coggia's Slow-Moving Red Fireball over Marseille Observatory
August 1, 1871 · Observatoire de Marseille, Longchamp plateau, Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône
France
UAP · Orb / light · 13 sources
21Thinly documented

Co-author of a modern re-evaluation in Redemption of the Damned (2019)

Pro early
The HMS Caroline "Chinese Lanterns" off Quelpart (Jeju)
February 24, 1893 · At sea, sixteen to seventeen miles south of Quelpart (Jeju Island), North China Sea
South Korea
UAP · Orb / light · 19 sources
24Thinly documented

Researcher who proposed the squid-fishing boat explanation in Redemption of the Damned (2019)

Pro early
Bishop Michaud's "torpedo-shaped" fireball, Burlington, Vermont
July 2, 1907 · Corner of Church Street and College Street, Burlington, Vermont
United States
UAP · Cigar · 20 sources
34Partially documented
Harmon Field Disc and Cloud Hole Photographs
July 10, 1947 · Harmon Field, Stephenville, Newfoundland
Canada
UAP · Disc / saucer · 17 sources
32Partially documented

Analyst who examined the cloud gap explanations

The Fukuoka F-61 Black Widow Radar-Visual Intercept
October 15, 1948 · About 50 miles northwest of Fukuoka, off the northwest coast of Kyushu, over the Korea Strait
Japan
UAP · Cigar · 16 sources
46Partially documented

Radar researcher, author of the NARCAP Radar Catalogue

Pro early
The Mount Kilimanjaro Sighting from an East African Airways Lodestar
February 19, 1951 · Above Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanganyika (now Tanzania), seen from a Lodestar over southern Kenya
Tanzania
UAP · Cigar · 14 sources
29Thinly documented

Analyst who examined and rejected the Venus explanation in 2011

The Lockheed Sighting: Kelly Johnson and the WV-2 Crew
December 16, 1953 · Lindero Ranch near Agoura and the Santa Barbara Channel, California
United States
UAP · Disc / saucer · 14 sources
27Thinly documented

Researcher, author of the 2014 triangulation study

The BOAC 'Flying Jellyfish': Captain James Howard and the Stratocruiser Centaurus
June 29, 1954 · Near the Quebec-Labrador border, about 150 nautical miles southwest of Goose Bay, Labrador
Canada
UAP · Formation · 16 sources
30Partially documented

Author of the 2010 NARCAP study

The Lakenheath-Bentwaters Radar-Visual Incident
August 13, 1956 · RAF Bentwaters and RAF Lakenheath, Suffolk, with RAF Neatishead, Norfolk
United Kingdom
UAP · Orb / light · 45 sources
65Well documented
West Freugh Radar Incident
April 4, 1957 · RAF West Freugh and the Luce Bay bombing range, Wigtownshire, Scotland
United Kingdom
UAP · Unknown · 26 sources
48Partially documented
The Milton Torres Intercept Order: RAF Manston, 1957
May 20, 1957 · RAF Manston, Isle of Thanet, Kent, and the skies over East Anglia
United Kingdom
UAP · Unknown · 37 sources
41Partially documented

Researcher who questioned the Project Palladium explanation

Pro early
Charleston Radar-Visual Case: Braniff Flight 42 and the Light at 33,000 Feet (Hynek RV-2)
May 4, 1966 · Jet airway over the Charleston area, West Virginia (Charleston sector of Indianapolis ARTC)
United States
UAP · Unknown · 13 sources
45Partially documented

Author of the RADCAT entry rating the case Unknown

Pro early
The Zanthus Pilot Sighting: a Dark Formation over the Nullarbor
August 22, 1968 · Near Zanthus, Nullarbor, on the Adelaide to Perth air route, Western Australia
Australia
UAP · Formation · 11 sources
23Thinly documented

Researcher who proposed the mirage and atmospheric ducting explanation

Pro early
Homestead AFB F-106 scramble after a large radar target over South Florida
September 14, 1972 · West Palm Beach and Miami airspace, south-east Florida
United States
UAP · Cigar · 9 sources
30Partially documented

Compiler of the NICAP RADCAT radar catalogue listing the case

America West Airlines Flight 564 (Cactus 564) sighting
May 25, 1995 · Near Bovina, Parmer County, Texas Panhandle (object to the north, toward Tucumcari, New Mexico)
United States
UAP · Cigar · 19 sources
26Thinly documented

Original compiler of the NICAP RADCAT radar catalogue

The Alderney UFO Sighting: Captain Ray Bowyer and the Two Yellow Cigars
April 23, 2007 · English Channel west of Alderney, near the Casquets lighthouse, Channel Islands
United Kingdom
UAP · Cigar · 32 sources
36Partially documented

Co-author of the independent study