Friday 24 July 2020

UFO Case Directory
(SIGHTINGS FROM AIRCRAFT):
“Air Force Jet Climbs To Identify Object
July 21, 1954
Boise, Idaho”


(NICAP.org)

The whole UFO case reports:
Dan Wilson:
July 21, 1954: Boise, Idaho
A USAF jet interceptor climbed to 20,000 feet to try and identify an unidentified flying object high above. The CAA said the jet was unable to get close enough to see the object clearly. The object appeared to be drifting slowly against prevailing winds at that altitude. (Reference: Daily Herald, Utah County, Utah, July 22, 1954, Page 2)”


Wikipedia article: “Mountain Home Air Force Base”:


Quote from the Wikipedia article:
Mountain Home Air Force Base (IATA: MUO, ICAO: KMUO, FAA LID: MUO) is a United States Air Force installation in the western United States. Located in southwestern Idaho in Elmore County, the base is twelve miles (20 km) southwest of Mountain Home, which is forty miles (65 km) southeast of Boise via Interstate 84. The base is also used by the Republic of Singapore Air Force, which has a detachment of F-15SG fighters on long term assignment to the base. They undergo training in combat tactics by U.S. airmen.

The host unit at Mountain Home since 1972 has been the 366th Fighter Wing (366 FW) of the Air Combat Command (ACC), nicknamed the ‘Gunfighters.’ The base’s primary mission is to provide combat airpower and combat support capabilities to respond to and sustain worldwide contingency operations.

Constructed in the early 1940s during World War II as a training base for bombers, after the war it briefly had transports, then was a bomber and missile base. It became a fighter base 54 years ago in 1966.”

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Oblique aerial photo in June 1945 of Mountain Home Army Air Field (Text: Wikipedia) (wikimedia.org) (Photo: wikimedia.org)

UFO News Article:
“Mystery Object Above Boise Pursued By Plane”


22 July 1954
(Daily Herald, Utah County, Utah)

Source: NICAP.org

The whole article:
“An Air Force jet interceptor climbed to 20,000 feet yesterday [21 July 1954] in pursuit of an unidentified flying object sighted in the sky between here and Boise, 50 miles away.

The Civil Aeronautics Administration here said the jet was unable to get close enough to the object to see it clearly. The plane was from the airbase at Boise.

The CAA said the object might have been a weather balloon, but it appeared to be drifting slowly against prevailing winds at that altitude.”


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Oblique aerial photo in June 1945 of Mountain Home Army Air Field (Text: Wikipedia) (wikimedia.org) (Photo: wikimedia.org)