Thursday 31 January 2019

U.S. Government UFO Document:
“AIR INTELLIGENCE INFORMATION
REPORT – REPORT NO. IR-23-52 –
PAGE 4 OF 16 PAGES”


Unknown date
(Project Blue Book, U.S. Air Force, Washington, D.C.)

Source: NICAP.org

The document pertains to 1st Lieutenant David C. Brigham’s UFO encounter over Misawa, Japan, on 29 March 1952. Brigham flew a T-6 trainer airplane.

Quote from the document (the testimony of David C. Brigham) (not written in U.S. Department of Defense document format) (Page 3):
“(1) At 1120 hours 29 March 52, I was flying a T-6 heading approximately due north at approximately 20 miles north of Misawa over the coast. I was climbing at approximately 130 mph indicated airspeed, altitude approximately 6000 feet. GCI was running an intercept on me with an F-84 flight of two. Call sign of th F-84’s was Frosty Mike 3 and 4. I watched them close on me from about 7:00 o’clock around to about 5:30 and Frosty Mike 3 overtook me passing starboard approximately 100', and approximately 10' below me, taking my number. As he pulled abreast of me at about my 3:00 o’clock position and 10 feet low, a flash of reflected sunshine caught my eye at about 4 o’clock position. The object which had reflected the sunshine was a small shiny disc-shaped object which was making a pass on Mike 3. It closed from slightly above him from approximately 4 o’clock and flew an approximate pursuit curve, appearing to overtake him at around 30 or 40 mph over his airspeed, which I would estimate at approximately 150 to 160 mph. It closed rapidly and just before flying into his fuselage it decelerated to his airspeed almost instantaneously. In doing so it flipped up on its edge at approximately a 90° bank. It then fluttered within 20 feet of his fuselage for perhaps 2 or 3 seconds, pulled away and around his starboard wing, appearing to flip once as it hit the slipstream behind his wing tip fuel tank. Then it passed him; crossed in front of him and pulled up abruptly, appearing to accelerate and shot out of sight in a steep, almost vertical climb.

It was about 8 inches in diameter, very thin, round and as shiny as polished chromium; had no apparent projections, and left no exhaust trails or vapor trails.

An unusual flight characteristic was a slow fluttering motion. It rocked back and forth at approximately 40° banks, at approximately 1 second intervals throughout its course. It was very thin and resembled a round piece of shiny sheet metal.

The weather was very good. I do not remember any clouds that day. Duration of sighting was approximately 10 seconds.

/s/ D. C. Brigham”

Project Blue Book listed the case as “Unknown.”



Wikipedia article: “Misawa Air Base”:


Wikipedia article: “North American T-6 Texan”:


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Two U.S. Army Air Forces North American AT-6C-NT Texan trainers (s/n 42-43925, 42-43929) in flight near Luke Field, Arizona (USA), in 1943. (text by Wikipedia) (wikimedia.org
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Satellite photo of MisawaJapan (tageo.com)
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UFO Case Directory
(SIGHTINGS FROM AIRCRAFT):
“Brigham/T-6 Case:
UFO Makes Pass At F-84 (BBU 1082)
March 29, 1952
Misawa, Japan”


(NICAP.org)

The whole UFO case report:
“11:20 local
Duration 10 secs?
T-6 aircraft
Japan
Military, USAF
1 observer
No EMI
No radar contact

Fran Ridge:
This report is case #29, on the official clearance list of 41 formerly classified Air Technical Intelligence UFO reports cleared for Maj. Donald E. Keyhoe by Albert M. Chop, Air Force Press Desk. Throughout UFO history; small discs have been reported from time to time that may be remote-controlled devices. The estimates of size range from about eight inches to a few feet in diameter.

Richard Hall:
March 29, 1952; Misawa, Japan
11:20 a.m. local. Lt. David C. Brigham, flying a T-6 as target plane for an intercept exercise by two F-84 jet fighters, saw a small, shiny disc about eight inches in diameter make a pass at one of the F-84s. It flew a pursuit curve and closed rapidly. Just as it would have flown into Brigham’s fuselage it decelerated to his airspeed, almost instantaneously. In doing so, it flipped up on its edge at an approximate 90-degree bank. It fluttered within two feet of his fuselage for perhaps two or three seconds. Then it pulled away around his starboard wing, appearing to flip once as it hit the slipstream behind his wing-tip fuel tank. Then it passed him, crossed in front, and pulled up abruptly appearing to accelerate, and shot out of sight in a steep, almost vertical climb. An unusual flight characteristic was a slow, fluttering motion. It rocked back and forth in 40-degree banks, at about one-second intervals throughout its course. (10 secs?)

Dan Wilson:
This was a hot zone for the Russians were moving bombers into China in 1952 (having to do with the Korean War) not far from Japan. It was in December of 1952, that the US Fifth Air Force moved the 49th’s 9th Fighter-Bomber Squadron of F-84Gs from Korea to Japan to train its aircrews in the delivery of tactical atomic weapons.”

NICAP.org presents U.S. government (U.S. Air Force) documents that pertain to the UFO case.


Wikipedia article: “Misawa Air Base”:


Wikipedia article: “North American T-6 Texan”:


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Two U.S. Army Air Forces North American AT-6C-NT Texan trainers (s/n 42-43925, 42-43929) in flight near Luke Field, Arizona (USA), in 1943. (text by Wikipedia) (wikimedia.org
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Satellite photo of Misawa, Japan (tageo.com)
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UFO News Article:
“US FIGHTER PILOTS TALK OF
HAVING CHASED SCORES OF UFOs”


6 September 1976
(Straits Echo, George Town, Malaysia)

Sources: U.F.O. Newsclipping Service, Seattle, Washington and AFU.se

The Straits Echo presents the UFO testimonies of Kenneth Leland, a Lieutenant Colonel in the Minnesota Air National Guard, Ed Simpson, a former U.S. Air Force radarman (served 20 years in the Air Force, 12 of them in radar operation) and Francis C. Sullivan, a retired U.S. Air Force Master Sergeant (served 28 years in the Air Force, 18 of them in radar operation).

It is tertimonies like these (by military personnel) that prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that unknown objects operate in the Earth’s airspace.

The whole article (Page 26):
“AIR FORCE fighters have been repeatedly sent up to intercept – despite the refusal of the U.S. Air Force to admit that UFOs even exist.

Former airmen – now free to talk – revealed that UFOs have been sighted and officially reported, tracked on radar ‘by the hundreds’ and chased by Air Force planes sent after them.

‘I’m well aware of UFOs – we used to track them on radar and run up interceptors against them,’ stated Ed Simpson, a former Air Force radarman who is now a policeman in Phillips, Wisconsin, USA.

‘I tracked hundreds of UFOs on radar,’ said Francis C. Sullivan, a retired Air Force Master Sergeant now living in Tucson, Ariz.

And Kenneth Leland, an elementary school principal in Superior, Wis., who is still a Lieutenant Colonel in the Minnesota Air National Guard, told us: ‘My plane was ‘scrambled’ after a UFO that was actually over a radar site northeast of Duluth, Minn.

‘Scrambling’ is an Air Force term for rapid or emergency takeoff in response to an alert.

Patrolman Simpson spent 20 years in the Air Force, 12 of them in radar operation.

‘When I was stationed in the upper peninsula of Michigan, we had whole groups of UFOs. We tracked them on radar and scrambled jets after them that chased them around the sky. Over a period of 12 years, I’d say I tracked at least 50 UFOs.

Did the jets ever catch up with them? ‘No,’ Simpson replied. ‘Our planes would go up to around 52,000 feet, their normal limit, and the pilots would report the UFOs were 30,000 to 40,000 feet still higher.’

Former Master Sgt. Sullivan spent 28 years in the Air Force. For 18 of them he was a radar operator at air bases in Japan and the U.S.

‘I couldn’t give you the exact number of UFOs I tracked on radar, but it must have been in the hundreds,’ he told us. ‘A lot of times we’d scramble jets after them. But only once did a pilot succeed in getting close to one – at an Air Force base near Masawa (Misawa), Japan, in 1951.

‘An officer pilot named Brigham was in the air and I was in radio contact with him when he sighted something and went after it,’ Sullivan said. ‘He radioed, I’ve never seen such a thing! It’s round – I don’t know what it is – when I started closing in on it, it must have – it’s gone, Sully, it’s gone! Just gone!’ When he landed he reported the incident. The next day they shipped him out of there.

‘But in 1968 I made a telephone call to Peterson Field, and recognized the voice at the other end as Brigham’s.

‘I asked him what had happened after the incident in Japan.

‘He said, ‘I can’t talk about it. They took me to Washington and that’s all I can tell you. I still can’t discuss it and l’m told not to.’ ”


Wikipedia article: “Minnesota Air National Guard”:


Wikipedia article: “Misawa Air Base”:


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Aerial photo of Security Hill at Misawa AB, Japan taken some time during the 1990s. (text by Wikipedia) (wikimedia.org)
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Misawa F-16CJ Block 50 Flagships (text by Wikipedia)
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