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.
Located in the Mojave
Desert, California. (text by Wikipedia)
