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Sighting record / 1968

Eielson AFB Tower and RAPCON Radar Orange Object

July 11, 1968 · Eielson Air Force Base, near Fairbanks, Alaska, United States
48Partially documented UAP Orb / light 13 sources

July 11, 1968. Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska. About three in the morning. Three men in the control tower noticed something low in the southern sky. An orange, round object. Bright, solid, sharp-edged. It sat roughly 18 miles south of the base. They watched it with their own eyes and through binoculars. Two of them said it was rising. The tower called the Fairbanks radar approach control. RAPCON reported returns south of Eielson. For 25 minutes the object held its place in the sky. Then it faded into the dawn haze. Project Blue Book blamed the Moon and anomalous propagation. Not everyone was convinced.

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Context

Eielson Air Force Base sits about 26 miles southeast of Fairbanks, in the interior of Alaska. In July the nights there are short. At three in the morning on the day in question, the Sun was already almost on the horizon.

Sources (13, most influential first)

  1. Eielson AFB tower and RAPCON radar (RADCAT) · NICAP · Research organisation · org report
  2. 1968 Chronology · NICAP · Research organisation · org report
  3. James E McDonald's radar-visual cases · Keith Basterfield· 2017-02-19 · Wiki, blog, podcast · blog
  4. RADCAT list post · NICAP (Dan Wilson)· 2010-06-14 · Research organisation · org report
  5. Project Blue Book case documents, part 1 · NICAP (USAF Project Blue Book scans) · Official document · gov doc