30 March 1950
(Daily Globe, Ironwood, Michigan)
Source: NewspaperArchive.com,
U.S.A.
My comment: The article reports on UFO sightings in the Gogebic County, MI (Ironwood) (on the afternoon of 29 March 1950)/Ashland, WI/Duluth, MN, area.
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Sunday, 31 January 2021
UFO News Article:
“Another ‘Flying Saucer’ Seen?”
Thursday, 1 October 2020
U.S. Government UFO Document:
“PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD:
DATE: 21 September 50/
LOCATION: Provincetown, Mass.”
(Project Blue Book, U.S. Air Force, Washington, D.C.)
Source: NICAP.org
Quote from the document:
“SOURCE: Military
When observer first noticed objects, his first impression was that they were extra large pieces of cardboard or wrapping [paper] tumbling about in an oversize ‘dust devil’. Observer continued to watch them, however, seemed to indicate that the objects [were] held aloft by a force other than aircurrents. They reacted in a manner indicating motive power on their own. All three [objects] acted independently and highly erratically. For example, one object would move up while another would move down and the [third] sideways. Object was observed through monocular (6X23).”
Project Blue Book listed the case as “UNIDENTIFIED.”
http://www.nicap.org/docs/500903spokane_docs.pdf
Wikipedia article: “Fairchild Air Force Base”:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairchild_Air_Force_Base
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UFO Case Directory (Distant Encounters):
“Three Pancake-Shaped Objects Observed
Sept. 3, 1950
Spokane, Washington”
(NICAP.org)
The whole UFO case report:
“Brad Sparks:
Sept. 3, 1950; Spokane, Wash. (BBU 797)
2 p.m. Major R. J. Gardiner saw 3 metallic bronze discs, 20-30 ft long, 2-6 ft thick, moving independently and erratically; his wife and neighbor [Fortney?] saw 1 object. (Berliner; FUFOR Index) 5 mins
Dan Wilson:
Sept. 3, 1950; Spokane, Washington (BBU 797)
2:00 p.m. PST. Maj. Russell J. Gardinier observed three pancake-shaped objects approximately 20 to 30 feet across constantly quivering and oscillating in the air. The objects were capable of abrupt changes of direction and speed, yet also could hang motionless in the air. The objects were a metallic bronze color. No sound was heard from the objects. Mrs. Gardinier and Mrs. Lowell Allen, observed the third object as it climbed and disappeared toward Fairchild AFB. The objects first appeared from the NW until they were abreast of the NW corner of Spokane, orbiting there for approximately five minutes then they headed SW towards Fairchild AFB. At 10:00 p.m. Capt. and Mrs. Fortney while driving on Highway 2 near Fairchild AFB, observed a bluish white light approaching their car at a high rate of speed. The light passed over the car and proceeded on a SW course overflying the hangers areas and runways of FAFB.”
http://www.nicap.org/500903spokane_dir.htm
Wikipedia article: “Fairchild Air Force Base”:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairchild_Air_Force_Base
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Spokane and Fairchild Air Force Base, Washington
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Sunday, 27 September 2020
U.S. Government UFO Document:
“PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD:
DATE: 21 September 50/
LOCATION: Provincetown, Mass.”
(Project Blue Book, U.S. Air Force, Washington, D.C.)
Source: NICAP.org
Project Blue Book listed the case as “UNIDENTIFIED.”
http://www.nicap.org/docs/500921provincetown_docs.pdf
Wikipedia article: “Signal Corps (United States Army)”:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_Corps_(United_States_Army)
Wikipedia article: “Republic F-84 Thunderjet”:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_F-84_Thunderjet
Wikipedia article: “Provincetown, Massachusetts”:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provincetown,_Massachusetts
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P-84Bs of the 48th Fighter Squadron, 14th Fighter Group, 1948.
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Provincetown, Massachusetts
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UFO Case Directory (RADCAT):
“SCR-615B Tracks UFO (BBU 809)
September 21, 1950
Provincetown, Mass.”
(NICAP.org)
The whole UFO case report:
“Fran Ridge:Another interesting radar ‘Unidentified’ is the case of a UFO tracked by a Massachusetts Institute of Technology radar observer while in the process of conducting a weather radar project (under a contract with the U.S. Signal Corps). An extract from his letter to Major Tuttle, Staff Weather Officer, 33rd Fighter Wing, Otis Air [Force] Base, Massachusetts, explains the situation and is provided in the report synopsis by Dr. J. Allen Hynek.
Brad Sparks:
Sept. 21, 1950; Provincetown, Mass. (BBU 809)9:53-9:55 a.m. (EST). MIT research associate and Air National Guard Maj. Myron Herbert Ligda and Joseph V. Connelly (plus another witness) tracked on SCR-615B radar an unidentified object heading N, during MIT Weather Radar Research Group tracking of USAF flight of 2 Otis AFB F-84 jet fighters which were heading 333 degrees straight and level course at about 400 mph (IAS 250 knots) positioned at range 45 miles 105 degrees azimuth initially, at 9:50 a.m. Object detected at 9:53 a.m. on a nearly intersecting straight line course heading about 358 degrees [at about 500 mph?], F-84 pilots were warned by VHF-1 radio but could not see object due to poor visibility haze when ground radar showed object crossed about 3 miles [actually plotted about 1-1.5 miles ahead and blips ‘nearly merged’ in front of jets at 9:54:00 a.m. Object speed about 1,500 mph as it made a sharp right turn and loop of about 270 degrees about 15 g's centripetal acceleration back to the W. (Jan Aldrich; Hynek UFO Rpt pp. 139-141; etc.) 2 mines”
http://www.nicap.org/500921provincetown_dir.htm
Wikipedia article: “Signal Corps (United States Army)”:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_Corps_(United_States_Army)
Wikipedia article: “Republic F-84 Thunderjet”:
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Saturday, 13 June 2020
UFO News Article:
“Mystery Object Seen Over Korea”
15 August 1952
(The Oregonian, Portland ,
Oregon
Source: ufonewspaper.blogspot.com
The whole article:
“WITH THE 1ST MARINE DIVISION, Korea
Combat marines are now seeing those round things in
the sky.
The marine division’s public information office Friday
[15 August 1952] related this frontline ‘flying saucer’ story:
Lt. Paul C. Mahoney of Brooklyn ,
N. Y., was leading a night patrol into Chinese territory. One marine and then
another noticed a strange looking object east of the moon at about 10,000 feet . It was
round and very thin, the marines said. It was a light color but not shiny.
The object remained stationary for a few moments, then
moved sharply and was still again. The second time it moved, the patrol lost
sight of it.”
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Friday, 29 May 2020
UFO News Article:
“HUGE ‘SAUCER’ ARMADA JOLTS
FARMINGTON – Crafts Seen By Hundreds – Speed Estimated At 1000 M.P.H.
Altitude 20,000 Feet”
18 March 1950
(Farmington Daily Times, New Mexico
Source: NewspaperArchive.com
The whole article:
“For the third consecutive day flying saucers have been reported over Farmington
Three persons called the Daily Times office to report seeing strange
objects in the air just before noon.
Persons along Main
[Street] once
again once again could be seen looking skyward and pointing.
High winds and dust storm prevented clear
vision.
______
______
Fully half of this town’s population still is certain today that it saw
space ships or some strange aircraft–hundreds of them–zooming through the skies
yesterday.
Estimates of the number ranged from ‘several’ to more than 500. Whatever they were, they caused a major sensation in this community, which lies only 110 air miles northwest of the huge
The objects appeared to play tag high in the air. At times they streaked
away at almost unbelievable speeds. One witness who took a triangulation
sighting on one of the objects estimated its speed at about 1,000 miles an hour,
and estimated its size as approximately twice that of a B-29.
A Red Leader
Scores described the objects as silvery discs. A number agreed they saw
one that was red in color – bigger and faster, and apparently the leader.
Clayton J. Boddy, 32, business manager of the Farmington
[Daily] Times and former Army Engineers captain in Italy
Boddy was on Broadway when ‘all of a sudden I noticed a few moving
objects high in the sky.’
‘Moments later there appeared what seemed to be about 500 of them,’
Boddy continued. He could not estimate their size or speed, but said they
appeared to be about 15,000
feet high.
Boddy’s accout was confirmed by Joseph C. and Francis C. Kalloff [or Kelloff], retail
grocers from Antonito, Colo., who were in Farmington to inspect the site of a
proposed new store, and by Bob Foutz and John Burrell of Farmington. The
Kellofs [or Kalloffs] said the objects appeared to be flying in formation.
One of the most impressive accounts came from Harold F. Thatcher, head
of the Farmington 20,000 feet high and
travelling more than 1000
miles per hour.
Knows Engineering
‘I’m not a professional engineer,’ Thatcher said, ‘but I have engineers
working under me and I know a little engineering, enough to know how to work
out a rough triangulation on an object.’
Thatcher emphatically denied an earlier report that the objects could
have been small pieces of cotton fuzz floating in the atmosphere.
‘It was not cotton,’ he said. ‘I saw several pieces of cotton fuzz
floating around in the air at the time, but I was not sighting on any cotton.’
The ‘cotton’ report was started by State Patrolman Andy Andrews, who quoted
several Farmington
The first reports of flying saucers were noted a few minutes before 11 a . m. yesterday. For a full
hour thereafter people deluged the Times office with reports of the objects.
A second large-scale sighting occurred at 3 p. m. At that time Mrs.
Wilson Jones, 27, and Mrs. Roy Hicks, 33, housewives, reported seeing the
objects to the north of Farmington
Johnny Eaton 29, a
real estate and insurance salesman, and Edward Brooks, 24, an employee of the
Perry Smoak garage, were the first to report the same sight.
Not Airplanes
Brooks, a B-29 tail gunner during the war, said he was positive the
objects sighted were not airplanes. ‘The very
maneuvering of the things couldn’t be that of modern aircraft,’ he said.
John Bloomfield, another employee of Smoak’s garage, said the objects he
saw travelled at a speed that appeared to him to be about 10 times faster than
that of jet planes. In addition, he said, the objects frequently made
right-angle turns.
‘They appeared to be coming at each other head-on,’ he related. ‘At the
last second, one would veer at right angles downward. One saucer would pass
another ahead and then immediately the one to the rear would zoom into the
lead.’
Marlow Webb, another garage employee, said the objects to the naked eye
appeared to be about eight inches in diameter as seen from the ground. He
described them as about the size of a dinner plate.
‘They flew sideways, on edge and at every conceivable angle,’ he said.
‘This is what made it easy to determine that they were saucer-shaped.’
None of the scores of reports told of any vapor trail or engine noise.
Nor did anyone report any windows or other markings on the craft.
In general Farmington
Opinion Divided
Opinion was somewhat divided among those who saw the objects as to
whether they were from another planet or were some new craft of our own
nation’s devising. Some expressed the opinion the entire incident was the
fulfilment of a Bible prophecy.
From sifting all reports, the Farmington
1. 10:15 a. m., five to nine ‘saucers’ zoomed over the town’s business
area for 10 minutes before moving out of sight to the northeast.
2. 10:00 a. m. [it is probable that the time is
incorrect], report of ‘hundreds’ seen west of town.
3. 10:30 a. m., red ‘saucers’ seen over town.
[4.] 10:35 a. m., three objects staged ‘dog fight’ over town.
5. 11:15 a. m., clearest view of a large number of ‘saucers.’
6. 11:30 a. m., all disappeared.
7. 3 p. m., fleet of ‘hundreds’ seen flying in formation to the
southwest from the northeast.”
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Wednesday, 27 May 2020
UFO Report:
“The Flying Saucer Invasion of 1950 –
Farmington, New Mexico and Beyond”
By David B. Marler, February 2018
(DavidMarlerUFO.com, Albuquerque ,
New Mexico
The 1950 Farmington ,
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