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New in the library The PURSUE files The Department of War's UAP release, mirrored in full: the videos, recordings and images, each beside its case file.Document scans in the stories6,478 scans · page 43
A cable from PEAP reported that an unidentified aircraft was sighted both visually and by radar by radar and radar radar observer on a Wakarau plane. There was no evidence of an interception. The sighting occurred at night; however, there was sufficient evidence to indicate that 6 unidentified aircr…
UFOs with Radar? In the fall of 1948, Project Sign received a report from Kyushu, Japan, describing the encounter of an F-61 aircraft with from two to six unidentified flying objects. Intelligence reports from Far East air forces indicated that…
The airmen felt obliged to consider the possibility that their six attempted intercepts involved more than one unknown. Hemphill mentions that, in the first attempted intercept, "the target put on a tremendous burst of speed and dived so fast that we were unable to attack it." After this head-on int…
aircraft I was familiar with, so I immediately contacted my Ground Control Station and asked for information regarding any aircraft flying in the area. The ground control radar reported no other aircraft and at no time could they pick up the UFO. Hemphill stated that he again caught "just a fleeting…
UNCLASSIFIED Vertical tail surfaces very well if present, airtail tail surfaces unaccustomed at overcrowded visual angles. Mane also a large underside at overcrowded visual angles. Guerreion aileronable. Sencor or dreamstate if present. Ported into rear tower, all but discernible. Power of propeller…
DR J. ALLEN HYNK 135 the UFOS might have "carried radar warning equipment," because the "object seemed cognizant of the whereabouts of the F-61 at all times." At the time, we placed at least at 11:05 PM on October 15, 1948, some 50 miles northwest of Fukushu, off the northwest coast of Kyushu. A sta…
STATEMENT 28 January 1949 1. I, OLIVIE HEPHILL Jr., lt. lt. USAF AO-78-150, see 26, do hereby make the following statement: 2. Present Duty: Assistant Operations Officer and Night Fighter Pilot, with the 16th Fighter Squadron, 3427th Fighter Group (A7) AO 95. 3. On the night of 15 October 1948 by ra…
123. 218 Oct, 15, 1948. About 50 miles NW (at 330° from) Fukuoka, Japan (at 34°00' N, 130°00' E). 11:05 p.m. (intermittently to 1:30 a.m.?) USAF pilot 1st Lt. Oliver Hemphill Jr. and radar observer 2nd Lt. Barton Halter flying a P-61 "Black Widow" night fighter made 6 interceptions of the same or di…
NARCAPTR - 6 Date of Report: 12-02 visible canopy, wings, power section or tail assembly - is consistent with a target of very much smaller radar cross-section than the F-61 of any maneuver, making it a very much more magnified target even than the "intermittently" detected F-61. Of six AI contacts …
136 THE HYNEK UPO REPORT On the fourth interception, the pilot called to me that we had been passed from above from the rear by our target. I picked up the target as it went off my second plane. I picked up the target as it went off my second plane. On the fifth and sixth interceptions, the target a…
soon. I realized at this time that it did not look like any type aircraft I was familiar with, so I immediately contacted my Groom. Control Station and asked for information regarding any aircraft flying in the area. The Ground Control Station informed me there were no other aircraft in the area. I …
NACRETR 6 Date of Expire 12:02 PAGE 3 LOCATION: SOURCES: Hynek 1978 135 Kyushu McDouglas 1968 (House Symp.) 69 Japan 65 RAIDER'S VISION: 10 episodes overall (60 episodes episodes) EVALUATIONS: Blue Book - unknown PRECISION: At 2365 s at 2 a.m. F1 Black Widow night-fighter was flying off the NW coast…
Date of Observation 15 Oct 48 Date of Interview Date time (local) 2305 Place of observation Pasuoka Area Between Shigamo Shima 3540'W by 1820'00"N and Pass Shima 3824'45"W-12824'00"E, Japan Aircraft pip of unknown aircraft appearing on airborne radar 6 20-30 ft. long N/3 Like aircraft, stubby, clean…
1. Case 35. Fukuoka, Japan, October 15, 1948. A very early radar-UFO case, still held as an official Unidentified, involved an attempted interception of the unknown object by an F-61 flying near Fukuoka, Japan, at about 11:00 p.m. local time on 10/15/48. The official file on this incident is lengthy…
UNCLASSIFIED Chief of Staff United States Air Force Washington, 25, D. C. ATTN: APOEI Collections Branch 1. On the 3 October 1945, the following representatives of this Command interrogated witnesses involved in the North Dakota incident of 1 October 1945 which occurred from 2100 to 2127 hours Centr…
MEMORANDUM SUBJECT: Incident #172, Fargo, N. Dakota, dated 1 Oct '48 TO: Mr. Money 1. Per your request for telecon condensation: a. Command Representatives interrogated witnesses involved in Incident #172 on the 3 Oct '18. b. Newspaper reports were confirmed as being substantially correct. c. Summar…
Subject: Project "SIGH" AIR INSPECTOR When the object began evasive tactics the F-51 pilot utilized maximum authorized power. (Engine seal for military power was not broken.) However, the object out-turned, out-speeded and out-climbed the F-51 in every instance. Contact was lost twenty-seven minutes…
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Office Memorandum · UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT TO : DIRECTOR, FBI January 31, 1949 DATE: FROM S.C, S.N. ANTONIO SUBJECT: PROTECTION OF VITAL INSTALLICTIONS DURE.U FILE # 65-50300 CONDITIAL Ludersfeld 2010 8/31/77 at recent Weekly Intelligence Conferences of G-2, ONI, OSI, and FD-I., in the Fourth Army…
THE DAYTON DAILY NEWS Companion To Flying Saucer, "Monster Bird" 11. PUIE. PUI. the assistant on all subjects 11:30 am, no, late afternoon white people hask paling four - five periods of 11:30, 11:30 For New York, NY and the New Jersey City area, please visit the New York Times website at www.nytime…
ANCHORAGE (AP) -- Reports of a giant winged creature seen in Southwest Alaska in recent weeks have biologists and residents puzzled. Vilagers in Togak and Manokotak say the huge bird has a wingspan of about 14-feet -- the size of a small plane -- and is much bigger than anything they have seen befor…
Fort Knox UFO incident still stirs interest CAPT. THOMAS MANTELL (LEFT) died in a plane crash while following an unidentified flying object that appeared over Fort Knox in 1948. Courtesy photo Compiled by LARRY BARNES TURKET EDITOR Tomorrow is the 57th anniversary of one of the most unusual events e…
http://www.bluebookarchive.org/page.aspx?PageCode=NARA-PBB1-15 JANUARY - FEBRUARY - MARCH 1948 SIGHTINGS LOCATION January OBSERVER 1948 | Antarctic NOT IN FOLDER | NOT IN FOLDER (Photos) (Photos) 1948 | Warren, Minnesota (NO CARD) | PHYSICAL-G Other (HOAX) 110 | Abilene, Texas | | Insufficient Data …
of the planes later called reported no success." reported no success. Captain Mantell, an air hero during the Allied invasion of Normandy, was the third pilot. His mother, Mrs. Thomas F. Mantell Sr., said in Louisville she was informed that her son flew too high in his pursuit of the object and lost…
FLIER DIES CHASING A 'FLYING SAUCER' Plane Explodes Over Kentucky as That and Near States Report Strange Object LOUISVILLE, Ky., Jan. 8 (AP) Several areas of Kentucky and adjoining states were excited today over reports of a "flying saucer" which led to the death of one National Guard flier and frui…
CAPTAIN THOMAS F. MANTELL, JR. Born in Franklin, Ky., 30 June 1922. Graduated Male High School, Louisville. Joined Army Air Corps, 16 June 1942. Graduated Flight School, 30 June 1943 During WW II. Mantell assigned to 440th Troop Carrier Group, 96th Troop Carrier Squadron, 9th Air Force. Awarded Dist…
Two other members of the Kentucky National Guard, also asked to make a flying investigation of reported "flying discs" in the area near Fort Knox, returned to their Louisville base. Two Hopkinsville pilots, James Garret and William Crenshaw, said they chased a flying object which they believed to be…
CAPTAIN THOMAS F. MANTELL, JR. Born in Franklin, Ky., 30 June 1922. Graduated Male High School. Louisville. Joined Army Air Corps. 16 June 1942. Graduated Flight School, 30 June 1943. During WW II. Mantell assigned to 440th Troop Carrier Group. 96th Troop Carrier Squadron. 9th Air Force. Awarded Dis…
"Monster Bird" Reported In Flying Saucer Area By United Press BELVIDERE, Ill., April 9. — A farmer and a truck driver reported today that they had seen a bird "bigger than an airplane." They believed it might be a visitor from another planet. The giant bird was reported by Robert Price and Veryl Bab…
'Monster Bird' Comes To Rest; Farmer Sees Giant Heron In Field Beloit. Wis., April 16.—The "monster bird" came to rest in a Clinton pasture yesterday. That at least is the belief of S. W. Merrick, a Clinton farmer, Merrick said he saw a giant heron, with a wingspread of at least six feet, standing i…
The Gigantic Bird Mystery That Thing in the Sky—Is It Really a Bird, or Is It a Plane or a Witch? AROVE IS A STYLIZED DRAWING OF THE "BIRD" SEED BY MR. AND MRS. CLYDE SMITH, AND BY MR. AND MRS. CLYDE SMITH. BLOW IS AN APPROXIMATION OF WHAT DR. KRISTINE DOLLAE SAWL. E. M. COLEMAN OF ALTON THOUGHT A S…
'Enormous' Bird Is Sighted Again, Flapping Over City ALTON, 111., April 24 (UP)-An "enormous" bird, first reported seabird seen flying over the outskirts of Alton shortly before noon today. E. M. Coleman, a former salesman, and his 15-year-old son James, said the bird was flying at about 500 feet an…
UNCLASSIFIED Inocident g123 -- Alton, Illinois -- 11 April 1940 There is nothing of astronomical character in this incident. If one considers Johnel Stagnund's statements apart from the considerably less reliable ones of other observers, it would seem that the object may really have been a bird.…