(NICAP.org)
The whole UFO case report:
“Fran Ridge:
I had read about this SECRET case in Ruppelt's book,
but never gave it too much thought until I found the 11-page paper by Barry
Greenwood. Our thanks to Barry for mailing me a copy so I could scan it; and to
Wendy Connors for the great pictures. I supplied the Project Book Book Status
Report #11 pages and then dan Wilson found 38 footnotes.com documents. This is
also a Category 8 (photo) case besides being a Cat 11 (Sightings From
Aircraft), and is double-listed on the Global Sighting Information Database on
the NICAP site. This one even includes two videos from the gun camera shots.
Brad Sparks:
March 3, 1953; (130 miles W. of Luke AFB,
Phoenix, Arizona), nr. Blyth, California (BBU)
1:25-1:32 p.m. (MST). USAF Capt. Roderick D. Thompson,
3600th Fighter Training Group, Luke AFB, instructor pilot in an F-84 at 25,000 ft 500 mph TAS heading 305°
Mag spotted 300-500 ft
wide aircraft leaving contrail crossing his path at 2 [10?] o'clock high
position from left to right at about 35,000 to 45,000 ft and about 400 mph TAS, visible only
by condensation vapor emitted from manta-ray shape flat surface. Student pilots
of two F-84’s, Lt. Jack E. Brasher and Lt. Thomas W. Hale, saw the object but
did not follow the pursuit. When Thompson turned (right?) to pursue object
climbing at full power at about 560
mph, object made slight dipping turn to NW and began
climbing at about 20° angle and object appeared to be very thin, and
immediately began to form a heavy condensation trail behind it for roughly 1,000 ft and split in two
for about 1,000 ft
but which ended abruptly and moved with the object, the trail not being left
behind. Thompson reached 30,000
ft and closed to within roughly 5-10 miles of object to a
point over Colorado River N of Parker Dam, about 70 miles N of Blythe, when
he took 151 frames or about 30
ft [6 ft?] of gun camera film of object, 16 mm N-9 camera, apparently
at 16 fps 1/40 sec exposure setting. (BB Rpt 11; NICAP website; McDonald list;
Ruppelt pp. 229-230; FUFOR Index)”
NICAP.org presents U.S.
government (U.S. Air Force) documents that pertain to the UFO case.
http://www.nicap.org/530303luke_dir.htm
Freeze-frame from 3 March 1953 U.S. Air Force UFO film
(filmed near Blyth, California) (thinkaboutitdocs.com)
(thinkaboutitdocs.com image)
