2 August 1952
(The Sheboygan Press, Wisconsin
Source: NICAP.org
The whole article:
“The nerve center of the nation’s air defense admits today to being
involved in the flying saucer situation.
Headquarters of the Air Force Air Defense
Command [Air Defense Command, later Aerospace Defense Command]
located at Ent Air Force
Base here, reported that has been a flurry of reports of saucers and other unidentified objects for the past two weeks.
And so seriously are the reports viewed that fast interceptor planes are
kept on the ready to jet aloft to find out what goes on —
if possible.
‘We’ve really been scrambling,’ a spokesman said. ‘These planes are kept
loaded and ready to go and their pilots are never more than a few feet away.
They're in the air within seconds of a report that seems definite enough.’
The thing is not geared up just for saucers though. The system is the same
as that worked out to meet any enemy attack.
Furthermore, the ADC isn’t saying what might have been found. The results
of the scrambles aren’t for it to announce. Findings are turned over to
technical experts at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton
The ADC, which commands and coordinates the three regional Air defense
commands in New York , Missouri
and California
My comment:
Ent Air Force Base later became the location of the United States Olympic Training Center.
Ent Air Force Base later became the location of the United States Olympic Training Center.
Wikipedia article: “Aerospace Defense Command”:
Wikipedia article: “Ent Air Force Base”:
(wikimedia.org image)
Ent Air Force Base later became the location
of the United States
Olympic Training Center
(Google photo)
(Google photo)
Air Defense Command map (1966) shows the ADC’s Air Divisions
(radomes.org) (radomes.org
image)
