(NICAP.org)
The whole UFO case report:
“Dan Wilson:
Sept. 20, 1952; At sea on USS Franklin D. Roosevelt
(BB)
At a few minutes after 4 p.m., personnel of the U.S.S.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, an aircraft carrier participating in the Mainbrace
maneuvers, observed a silvery, spherical object which was also photographed.
(The pictures have never been made public). The UFO was seen moving across the
sky behind the fleet. Reporter Wallace Litwin took a series of color
photographs, which were examined by Navy Intelligence officers. The weather man
aboard said a balloon was launched at
3:30 p.m. and it rose up and out of sight in the overcast in about 50 seconds.
Fran Ridge:
Thanks to information from Martin Shough we have been
able to obtain clarifications. Actually the 3-4 photos were taken by the
reporter onboard. The reporter later said the object looked like a white
ping-pong ball. A letter from the photographer to researcher Ole Henningsen is
provided below and in it he claims that it was not a weather balloon. As Martin
pointed out there is no evidence in the photo of any radar reflector. Litwin
also reported that the FDR was carrying an atomic bomb. Additional documents
were just obtained from Brad Sparks and have been added to the dir reports
below. For the record, Dan Wilson found the name Wallace Litwin in the article
by Richard Hall. * Litwin was also
mentioned in NICAP’s UFO Evidence, page 162. The date was given as September
20, 1952 on the PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD, and three other BB docs.**
Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt:
In late September 1952 the NATO naval forces had held
maneuvers off the coast of Europe; they were called Operation Mainbrace. Before
they had started someone in the Pentagon had half seriously mentioned that
Naval Intelligence should keep an eye open for UFO’s, but no one really
expected the UFO’s to show up. Nevertheless, once again the UFO’s were their
old unpredictable selves – they were there.”
NICAP.org presents U.S.
government (U.S. Air Force) documents that pertain to the UFO case.
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