UFO Case Directory (RADCAT): “Eight Radar Tracks by GCA Team March 13, 1952 Keflavik, Iceland”

(NICAP.org)

The whole UFO case report:

“Dan Wilson:

March 13, 1952; Keflavik, Iceland

7:12 a.m. Eight separate unidentified radar sightings were made by a [U.S. Air Force] GCA team while working a C-47 aircraft on practice runs at Keflavik, Iceland. The first of the eight objects appeared at 0712Z (7:12 a.m. local time). The last object was observed at 8:09 a.m. The estimated airspeed of the objects was 250 knots and at estimated altitude of above 8000 feet. One report stated that one object crossed the scope at a speed much faster than an F-86.”

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

http://www.nicap.org/520313keflavik_dir.htm

Wikipedia article: “Naval Air Station Keflavik”:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_Air_Station_Keflavik

Quote from the Wikipedia article:

“Naval Air Station Keflavik (NASKEF) was a U.S. Navy station at Keflavík International Airport, Iceland, located on the Reykjanes peninsula on the south-west portion of the island. NASKEF was closed on 8 September 2006, and its facilities were taken over by the Icelandic Defence Agency as their primary base until 1 January 2011, when the Agency was abolished and the base handed over to the Icelandic Coast Guard, which has since then operated the base.[1]

The base was built during World War II by the United States Army as part of its mission to maintain the defense of Iceland and secure northern Atlantic air routes. It served to ferry personnel, equipment, and supplies to Europe. Intended as a temporary wartime base under an agreement with Iceland and the British, US forces withdrew by 1947 but returned in 1951 as the Iceland Defense Force resident on a North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) base. The base was regularly visited by the American military and other NATO allies for military exercises, NATO Air Policing, and other tasks. In 2017, the United States announced its intention to modify the largest hangar on the Icelandic base in order to house the new Boeing P-8 Poseidon ASW aircraft being introduced.[2]

History

United States Air Force use

On 25 May 1951 the U.S. Air Force reestablished a presence at Keflavik Airport with the establishment of the 1400th Air Base Group. Jurisdiction of the airport was assumed by Military Air Transport Service (MATS). MATS re-established a military air terminal and refueling point for trans-Atlantic air service between the United States and Europe at Keflavik. MATS (later MAC and Air Mobility Command) units remained at the airport until the withdrawal of United States military units from Iceland in 2006.”

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Keflavik International Airport, Keflavik, Iceland (wikimedia.org)

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