Created: 2 January 2006
Updated: 29 April 2017
(NICAP.org)
Quote from the UFO report:
“This chronology is currently a 20-page report. I want
to thank all the members of the A-Team who made this possible. Finally, but
certainly not least, I want to thank Loren Gross for thoughtfully and
diligently collecting data many years ago for his UFO Histories and
supplemental notes, in particular here the year 1951. A big thanks to CUFOS
and Mary Castnor for housing them on the CUFOS site …
Francis Ridge
NICAP Site Coordinator
Feb. 9 (not 10th), 1951; off Newfoundland,
Canada
On the night of the UFO encounter, a four engine Navy
R5D transport was flying west over the Atlantic.
On this trip the 30-year-old pilot was bringing two flight crews home from
special duty in Europe. Including his own crew
there were over twenty-five pilots, navigators and flight engineers aboard the
transport. The National Archives turned up a number of supporting documents on
this case, including Air Intelligence Information Reports by five of the crew
members. Although it isn’t documented, reports indicate the object was tracked
by ground radar. (NICAP, BB, Dan Wilson)
Feb. 21, 1951; Bt. Newfoundland
and Iceland
(BB)
3:00 AM. The Incident #26 report describes the event
in more detail. Lt. George Williams was piloting a Navy Fleet Logistics
airplane cruising at 10,000
feet. At first he thought the object was a ship and then
called the copilot forward. Nine witnesses saw the object approach at terrific
closing rate. It veered to their port side and hovered momentarily, then rose
at extremely rapid rate and disappeared off their port quarter. Size was
estimated at 200 feet
in diameter, flat elliptical or cigar shaped by side view and seemed to be
producing a ring of red-orange exhaust all along the edge. (Jan Aldrich,
Project Interloper report).”
UFO incidents involving U.S. military personnel occurred
thick and fast in 1951.
The Graham E. Bethune Case, 9 [not 10]
February 1951,
off Newfoundland, Canada
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