30 July 1952
(Walla Walla Union-Bulletin , Washington
Source: NICAP.org
The whole article (text written by NICAP.org):
“Flying saucers which hovered over the Great Falls
Sgt. Charles Boden said he was listening to a direct communications system with McChord Air Force Base inWashington and
learned that saucers were sighted over that Air Force Base ‘heading toward Great Falls
Objects Sighted
Sgt. Charles Boden said he was listening to a direct communications system with McChord Air Force Base in
Objects Sighted
About four and a half minutes after hearing the McChord report, he said he sighted the objects. He reported that two of the saucers appeared stationary at first, then another came ‘whipping going West’ and the two stationary objects then appeared to take off, following the third.
(A McChord spokesman said Tuesday night there were several flaws in Boden’s story. He denied there had been any conversation between McChord and
Contradiction?
(‘I can say categorically we logged no unusual sightings over McChord this afternoon,’ the spokesman declared. ‘Two unusual objects at high altitude and
Later in the afternoon Boden said he sighted four traveling in the opposite direction. He described the objects as circular in shape and not thick and added they gave off no sound or left no vapor trails.
If the saucers over McChord and the ones Boden reported were the same, a rough estimate of the speed would be
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Wikipedia article: “Malmstrom Air Force Base”:
“Malmstrom Air Force Base is a United States
Air Force base and census-designated place (CDP) in Cascade County, Montana,
United States, adjacent to the city of Great Falls. It was named in honor of
World War II POW Colonel Einar Axel Malmstrom. It is the home of the 341st
Missile Wing (341 MW) of the Air Force Global Strike Command (AFGSC). As a
census-designated place, it had a population of 3,472 at the 2010 census.[2]
Malmstrom
Originally named Great Falls Army Air Base, later
Great Falls Air Force Base, the facility was renamed Malmstrom Air Force Base
on 1 October 1955 in
honor of Colonel Einar Axel Malmstrom (1907–1954).
Air Defense Command
By 1954, several aircraft control and warning (radar)
squadrons had been formed at the base. The 903d Aircraft Control and Warning
Squadron was one of them, and operated an AN/TPS-1D (termed a ‘gap-filler’).
This radar was used probably for training purposes. The 903rd AC&W Squadron
subsequently relocated to Gettysburg AFS, South Dakota
In 1957, under the control of the 801st Aircraft
Control and Warning Squadron, the Malmstrom AFB radar station became
operational with AN/FPS-20 search and AN/FPS-6 height-finder radars. A second
AN/FPS-6 series height-finder radar was added in 1960, and subsequently was
upgraded to an AN/FPS-90 set. In 1959 Malmstrom was performing
air-traffic-control duties for the FAA, and joined the Semi Automatic Ground
Environment (SAGE) system on 1 March 1961, the squadron being redesignated as
the 801st Radar Squadron (SAGE). In 1964 Malmstrom received an AN/FPS-24 search
radar, replacing the AN/FPS-20.”
Wikipedia article: “McChord Field”:
Quote from the Wikipedia article:
“McChord Field (IATA: TCM, ICAO: KTCM,
FAA LID: TCM) is a United States Air Force base in the northwest United States,
in Pierce County, Washington. South of Tacoma, McChord Field is the home of the
62d Airlift Wing, Air Mobility Command, the field’s primary mission being
worldwide strategic airlift.
The McChord facility was consolidated with the U.S. Army’sFort Lewis
The McChord facility was consolidated with the U.S. Army’s
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Aerial view of Malmstrom Air Force Base,
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