Friday 2 August 2019

U.S. Government UFO Document:
“PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD:
DATE: 12 Feb 62/
LOCATION: Winnemucca AFB, Nevada”


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

Source: NICAP.org

Quote from the document:
“Radar painted 1 large target considered to be out of the ordinary because of the height and range. Altitude given as appearing at 74,000 and disappearing at 96,000 when it disappeared from scope due to scope limitations. No angle or azimuth given. Object on scope for 5 min.

Report was received and sent to radar analysis branch for evaluation. Considered to be a definite object, however without the tracking data including range and azimuth no attempt to determine the nature of the object was made.”

NICAP.org also presents the other documents that pertain to the case.



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Winnemucca AFS Radio Site Repurposed,
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UFO Case Directory (RADCAT):
“Object Tracked By AN/FPS-9 at 74,000'
Feb. 12, 1962
Winnemucca AFB, Nevada”


(NICAP.org)

The whole UFO case report:
Brad Sparks:
Feb. 12, 1962; Winnemucca AFB, Nevada (BBU)
(McDonald list)

Dan Wilson:
Feb. 12, 1962; Winnemucca AFB, Nevada
At 8:06 a.m. local time, radar of the 658 Radar Squadron painted one large target considered to be out of the ordinary because of the height and range. Object appeared at 74,000 feet and disappeared in excess of 96,000 feet. The object was on the scope for 5 minutes. Observer was S/Sgt F. Grover, Crew Chief 658th RS, with 11 years of radar experience. Radar type was an FPS-6B. (Dan Wilson)”

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


Wikipedia article: “Winnemucca Air Force Station”:


Quote from the Wikipedia article:
Winnemucca Air Force Station (ADC ID: M-127, NORAD ID: Z-127) is a closed United States Air Force General Surveillance Radar station. It is located 3.1 miles (5.0 km) north-northwest of Winnemucca, Nevada. It was closed in 1968.

History

The station was activated on 8 June 1955 after the 658th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron was moved to the new station on 1 February 1956 by the 28th Air Division. Operational status was finally achieved by the 658th AC&W Squadron in 1956. The site used an AN/FPS-3 radar, and initially the station functioned as a Ground-Control Intercept (GCI) and warning station. As a GCI station, the squadron's role was to guide interceptor aircraft toward unidentified intruders picked up on the unit's radar scopes.
By 1959 this radar had been joined by a pair of AN/FPS-6B height-finder radars. In 1960 the AN/FPS-3 was replaced by an AN/FPS-20 search set. At the end of 1961 this search set had been upgraded into an AN/FPS-66. During 1961 Winnemucca AFS joined the Semi Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE) system, initially feeding data to DC-21 at Stead AFB, Nevada. After joining, the squadron was re-designated as the 658th Radar Squadron (SAGE) on 1 March 1961. The radar squadron provided information 24/7 the SAGE Direction Center where it was analyzed to determine range, direction altitude speed and whether or not aircraft were friendly or hostile.”

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Winnemucca AFS Radio Site Repurposed,
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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]”


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Runways on and near Rogers Dry Lake, at Edwards Air Force Base.
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