UFO Report: “The 1962 UFO Chronology”

Created: 27 April 2006

Updated: 26 March 2017

(NICAP.org)

Quote from the UFO report:

“This is a chronology of UFO incidents for 1962. Most notable was the reported crash of a UFO on April 18 near Las Vegas, Nevada. A high speed brilliant maneuverable object was tracked by radars and sighted visually across the continent by numerous military and civilian witnesses. Next was the NE New Jersey mini-flap of Sept. 15-28. Across the Hudson River from New York City, was the scene of a definite flurry of sightings of UFOs, with the heaviest concentration in the Oradell-Hawthorne area. In October (18-29) the Cuban Missile Crisis occurred. It was the closest the world has ever come to a nuclear war. Right in the middle of this crisis an F-106, armed with nuclear-tipped missiles, was scrambled from Palermo AFB to intercept a UFO over New York.

The Air Force put its first ten Minuteman ICBMs on operational alert at Malmstrom AFB, Montana, in October 1962. Deployment proceeded at an equally furious pace, and within 5 years (the 1967 UFO sighting wave) 1,000 of the solid-fuel missiles stood poised in their silos.

Our thanks for these chronologies must go to our documentation team: Rebecca Wise (Project Blue Book Archive), Dan Wilson (archive researcher), and Brad Sparks (Comprehensive Catalog of Project Blue Book Unknowns). Last, but not least, our thanks to Jean Waskiewicz who created the online NICAP DBase (NSID) that helped make it possible to link from the cases to the reports themselves.

Francis Ridge

NICAP Site Coordinator

Hillenkoetter Resigns From NICAP

Vice-Admiral Roscoe Hillenkoetter resigned from NICAP in Feb 1962 and was replaced on the NICAP Board by a former covert CIA high official, Joseph Bryan III, the CIA’s first Chief of Political & Psychological Warfare (Bryan never disclosed his CIA background to NICAP or Keyhoe).

April 30, 1962, Edwards AFB, Cal.

X-15 flight, piloted by Joe Walker; Photograph (no visual sighting) of 5 or 6 ‘disc-shaped or. . .cylindrical’ objects. Slides later shown in Seattle conference. NICAP unable to obtain prints. [NICAP UFO Evidence]”

http://www.nicap.org/chronos/1962fullrep.htm

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Runways on and near Rogers Dry Lake, at Edwards Air Force Base.
Located in the Mojave Desert, California. (text by Wikipedia) 

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