Tuesday 7 April 2020

UFO News Article:
“Flying Object Seen Over Gulf –
Coast Guardsmen Report Sighting”


5 November 1957
(Hattiesburg American, Mississippi)

Source: NewspaperArchive.com

The whole article:
“The Coast Guard Cutter Sebago sighted an unidentified flying
object over the Gulf of Mexico at 5:21 a.m. (CST) today
[5 November 1957]. The object, seen for about three seconds,
resembled a brilliant planet moving at tremendous speed.

Coast Guard headquarters in New Orleans received a radio message about the sighting. The message did not say exactly who on board the cutter had seen the object.

But it said the object had been tracked on the Sebago’s radar screen for 11 minutes before the visual contact and for 16 minutes afterward. During these periods, the object darted off the screen every few minutes but soon returned.

Cmdr. James Schrader, head of search and rescue operations in the Gulf, said the object had been seen at latitude 25.47 north, longitude 89.24 west or about 200 miles [320 kilometres] directly south of the mouth of the Mississippi River.

Cmdr. Schrader said the radio message gave this log of the morning incident:

5:10 a.m.—The object was seen on the radar screen, moving north to south, about 14 miles from the cutter. The object continued to move closer, shifting toward the port side.

5:14—Contact was lost.

5:16—The object, about 55 miles from the Sebago, faded off the screen.

5:20—Contact was regained. The object appeared stationary, seven miles due north.

5:21—The object was seen, moving horizontally south to north. It was seen for about three seconds and resembled a brilliant planet with a high rate of speed.

5:21 — Radar contact was resumed.

5:37—The cutter reported its last radar contact with the object about 175 miles north of the ship.

The Sebago is expected to report back to its home base in Mobile by Thursday.”


Wikipedia article: “USCGC Sebago (WHEC-42)”:


Quote from the Wikipedia article:
USCG Sebago (WHEC-42) was an Owasco class high endurance cutter which served with the US Coast Guard from 1945 to 1972. Originally intended for World War II service, she was not commissioned until a month after the end of hostilities and consequently did not see combat until her deployment in the Vietnam War more than 20 years later.

Sebago was built by Western Pipe & Steel at the company’s San Pedro shipyard. Named after Sebago Lake, Maine, she was commissioned as a patrol gunboat with ID number WPG-42 on 20 September 1945. Her ID was later changed to WHEC-42 (HEC for ‘High Endurance Cutter’ - the ‘W’ signifies a Coast Guard vessel).[2][3]”

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USCGC Sebago (WHEC-42) (wikimedia.org)
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1957 was “a major sighting wave year,” according to NICAP.org’s 1957 UFO chronology report (see below link).

Larry Hatch’s 13 September 1998 UFO report informs us that there occurred many UFO incidents at or around nuclear sites and related places in 1957 – especially in November (see below link).

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UFO Map: North America 1957 (archive.org/larryhatch.net)
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U.S. government web page: “U.S. Department of Energy Pantex Plant”:


Wikipedia article: “Pantex Plant”:


Quote from the Wikipedia article:
“The Pantex Plant is the primary United States nuclear weapons assembly and disassembly facility that aims to maintain the safety, security and reliability of the nation’s nuclear weapons stockpile.[1][2] The facility is located on a 16,000-acre (25 sq mi; 65 km2) site 17 miles (27 km) northeast of Amarillo, in Carson County, Texas in the Panhandle of Texas. The plant is managed and operated for the United States Department of Energy by Consolidated Nuclear Security and Sandia National Laboratories. Consolidated Nuclear Security, LLC (CNS) is composed of member companies Bechtel National, Inc., Leidos, Inc., Orbital ATK, Inc, and SOC LLC, with Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc. as a teaming subcontractor.[3] CNS also operates the Y-12 National Security Complex.[3]

As a major national security site, the plant and its grounds are strictly controlled and off-limits to all civilians, and the airspace above and around the plant is prohibited to civilian air traffic by the FAA as Prohibited Area P-47.

History

Bunkers at Pantex used for temporary staging of nuclear weapons.
The Pantex Plant was originally constructed as a conventional bomb plant for the United States Army Air Force during the early days of World War II. The Pantex Ordnance Plant was authorized February 24, 1942. Construction was completed on November 15, 1942 and workers from all over the U.S. flocked to Amarillo for jobs.

Pantex was abruptly deactivated when the war ended and remained vacant until 1949, when Texas Technological College in Lubbock (now Texas Tech University) purchased the site for $1.[4] Texas Tech used the land for experimental cattle-feeding operations.

In 1951, at the request of the Atomic Energy Commission (now the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)), the Army exercised a recapture clause in the sale contract and reclaimed the main plant and 10,000 acres (40 km2) of surrounding land for use as a nuclear weapons production facility. The Atomic Energy Commission refurbished and expanded the plant at a cost of $25 million. The remaining 6,000 acres (24 km2) of the original site were leased from Texas Tech in 1989.

The Pantex Plant was operated by Procter & Gamble from 1951 to 1956, Mason & Hanger from 1956 to 2001, and Babcock & Wilcox from 2001 to 2014.[5]

The plant employed about 3,600 people in 2010 and had a budget of $600 million for fiscal year 2010.[6]”

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