UFO Case Directory (Sightings From Aircraft or Spacecraft): “Glowing Disc Startles Veteran Brazilian Airline Pilot between Belo Horizonte and Uberaba, Brazil Aug. 9, 1971”

(NICAP.org)

The whole UFO case report:

“Richard Hall:

Capt. Vicente Lopes Buono, commanding an airline flight (call letters PP-DHU) between Belo Horizonte and Uberaba, Brazil, on August 9, 1971, at 9:00 a.m., reported that his plane was paced for 20 minutes at 2,400 meters (7,920 feet) altitude by a glowing orange disc (‘like two round basins, one on top of the other’) over mountainous terrain. Sgt. Falcao, flight controller at Uberaba airport, suggested that he investigate the object. When the pilot tried to move closer, the object maintained a constant distance, then suddenly increased its speed and disappeared.

The sighting occurred between the cities of Pratinha and Sacramento in the Minas Gerais region. Lopes Buono, a pilot for 24 years, said ‘I never saw anything like it in my entire career as a pilot.’ He gave a statement to Sgt. Silvio Motta, commander of the Brazilian Air Force unit in Uberaba.14

Source: Volume II, The UFO Evidence, A Thirty-Year Report, Richard Hall, (2001), page 131”

http://www.nicap.org/710809dir.htm

Wikipedia article: “Pratinha”:

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

Wikipedia article: “Sacramento, Minas Gerais”:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacramento,_Minas_Gerais

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Pratinha, Sacramento and Uberaba, Minas Gerais State, Brazil

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Location of Pratinha [in Minas Gerais State, Brazil]

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Location of Sacramento [in Minas Gerais State, Brazil]

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Google Website Searches: Focus On UFO Incidents Involving Airliners

Website: National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP.org):

https://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=“Airliner”+site:nicap.org

(Search term: “Airliner”)

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UFO Radio Interview: “Ken Fortenberry, The 1957 Nash-Fortenberry UFO Sighting”

Streamed live: 17 June 2020

(Podcast UFO, Sebago, Maine)

Source: Martin Willis Live Shows (YouTube channel)

Quote from the video text:

“Alejandro Rojas checks in for the first 25 [minutes], then guest Ken Fortenberry on his book, ‘Flight 7 Is Missing: The Search for My Father’, which has a really interesting UFO connection. Ken’s dad was a copilot aboard Flight 7 when it crashed in November 1957, which is known as the ‘Great Sighting Week’ (There are great callers relating to this incident). His dad was also involved in a noted UFO sighting in 1952, the first over head sighting, the Nash-Fortenberry UFO Sighting.

KEN H. FORTENBERRY is a nationally recognized investigative journalist and author who has earned more than 200 state, regional, and national awards for excellence in reporting and writing.”

My comment:
The two Miami, Florida, airline pilots, William B. Nash and William H. Fortenberry (Pan American World Airways), sighted 8 UFOs over the Chesapeake Bay, east of Washington, D.C., on 14 July 1952  (see Nash/Fortenberry link).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CLTx8hiU1s

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William H. Fortenberry (left) and William B. Nash

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UFO Magazine Article: “WASHINGTON’S BLIPS – ‘Somethings’ over the capital are traced on radar”

4 August 1952

(Life, New York City, New York)

Source: NICAP.org

Quote from the article:

“The most startling ‘flying saucer’ incidents recently reported have taken place during the past two weeks over Washington, D.C. and threaten to make politics take a back seat in the most political of American cities. There, for the first time, mysterious objects in the sky were recorded by ground observers, by pilots in airplanes and on radar screens all at the same time. And, for the first known time, the U.S. Air Force sent its jet planes up in an attempt to intercept the objects.

…

The attitude of the Air Force during the July incidents was puzzling. When the first appearance of the blips was reported in Washington newspapers, no mention was made of the jet interceptors. In fact the Air Force stated that it had sent none up. But when confronted with the facts by Time-Life Washington Correspondent Clay Blair Jr. who gathered the material for this article the Air Force finally admitted that it had indeed sent fighters up. No reason has been given for this contradiction. The Air Force might have been embarrassed by the delay in supplying planes. Or it might possibly have known more about the blips than it had admitted. There is another puzzle: experienced airline pilots could see lights where the radar reported blips. Air Force planes said they could not.”

I also reported about this article on 14 August 2012 (see below link).

http://www.nicap.org/articles/520804Life_Article.htm

Wikipedia article: “1952 Washington, D.C. UFO incident”:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1952_Washington,_D.C._UFO_incident

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Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, Washington, D.C.

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UFO Magazine Article: “Someone’s Watching Over Us”

By Major Donald E. Keyhoe, USMC (Ret.), 1967

(TRUE Magazine, U.S.A.)

Source: NICAP.org

The whole article:

“Since January 1950, when TRUE published my first article on UFO’s (see page 6), there has been a tremendous change in the public attitude toward Unidentified Flying Objects. Before, the ‘flying saucers’ were ridiculed by most Americans. Only a small number knew the dramatic evidence – confirmed reports by veteran pilots and other competent witnesses. Even fewer knew of the Air Force Top Secret Estimate of the Situation – that the Flying Saucers – officially Unidentified Flying Objects – were interplanetary vehicles engaged in a long observation of the earth.

Today, according to national polls, half of our population is convinced that the UFO’s are real (see page 52). Over five million people claim to have seen strange flying objects. Some newly convinced Americans, reluctant to believe we are being observed by a technically superior race, first ask if the UFO’s aren’t highly secret devices – American or Russian. But the massive documented evidence of tremendous speeds and maneuvers far beyond any earth made craft has proved this answer impossible. More and more millions now accept the long-hidden AF explanation: The UFO’s are interplanetary probes from another world.

This great switch in public belief did not come about quickly. The January 1950 TRUE article put the first strong spotlight on UFO’s, and hundreds of witnesses reported sightings they had withheld for fear of ridicule.

In 1952, a sudden outbreak of UFO sightings made front-page news, with hundreds of verified reports by military and airline pilots, control tower operators, expert radar trackers, and other reliable observers.

Early in 1953, one group of AF Intelligence officers connected with the UFO project planned to release their most baffling cases, also unexplained photographs of UFO’s. No final conclusion was to be stated, though the released evidence would strongly point to the interplanetary answer. But at the last moment, fears of high-level officials caused the plan to be killed. Withholding of UFO reports and ‘explanations’ to prevent public excitement steadily increased.

Despite this, many military reports leaked out because the pilots and others involved opposed this cover-up as a bad policy. In addition to UFO operations over the United States, thousands of similar reports came to light in foreign countries.

In November 1957, another outbreak of sightings further strained official withholding efforts, as a number of ‘touchdown’ landings occurred in this country and abroad.

That same year, investigations were begun by NICAP – the National Investigations Committee On Aerial Phenomena – a private fact-finding group with headquarters in Washington D.C. As Director of NICAP, I have seen it grow to a powerful organization, recognized as the largest scientific UFO research group in the world, with over 12,000 members. NICAP has nearly 300 scientific and technical advisers and special consultants on space operations, astronomy, communications, and other fields bearing on UFO investigations.

Because of its serious and thorough evaluations, and its determined efforts to expose the numerous frauds, opportunists, and deluded persons spreading wild tales about UFO’s, NICAP is now accepted as the highest private UFO authority in the world. Our documented reports to Congress and the press have played a major part in making hidden facts public.

After the ‘marsh gas’ fiasco in the spring of 1966, millions of citizens began to reject the AF UFO explanations. High officials, still honestly believing that explaining away the sightings was the safest policy for the country, were caught in an unenviable spot.

The result was a decision to have an independent scientific investigation made – with officials agreeing to a ‘hands off’ policy. The University of Colorado was selected, and a number of recent sightings has already had on-the-scene investigations by one or more scientists from the Colorado project.

Even before the project began operations, NICAP played a vital part, at the request of Dr. Edward Condon, the project head, and his scientific colleagues. In addition to advice on field investigations and evaluations, NICAP has made available several hundred verified reports, including many duplications of cases in AF files.

As a result, the Colorado Project has added to NICAP hopes for a fair and impartial report to the public. Although this is not due until late spring of 1968 – and more time may be requested – public pressure for all possible answers is rapidly increasing.

With at least half the country now strongly interested, it is now more important than ever to re-examine the strongest earlier cases, to search for possibly overlooked clues. It is also extremely important that witnesses to sightings put their reports on record, to help complete the picture and also to help the already lessening ridicule. I urge everyone with factual UFO sighting information to report the details to me at NICAP, 1536 Connecticut Avenue, Washington, D.C. 20036. If you wish, we shall keep your name confidential.”

https://www.nicap.org/true-swou.htm

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The late Major Donald Edward Keyhoe, U.S. Marine Corps,
NICAP Director, UFO Author & Researcher

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UFO News Article: “ ‘Strange Object’ Sighted in Skies by Pilots – Seen Over Big Delta Wednesday”

12 December 1952

(Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Alaska)

Source: Newspapers.com

The whole article:

“Three airline pilots reportedly disclosed yesterday they sighted a mysterious unidentified object ‘that looked like a landing light’ traveling through the air at ‘a very high rate of speed’ Wednesday evening [10 December 1952] in the vicinity of Big Delta.

Reliable news sources say the object was reported as flying at an estimated altitude of 15,000 feet, some 6,000 feet above the passenger plane.

Called Control

The crew, upon sighting the object, immediately contacted air defense control by radio and reported the strange light. Yesterday afternoon the pilots were taken to Ladd field for a two-and-a-half hour interrogation by high officials there.

The pilots, following a request by the military, made absolutely no comment on the incident and the air force was unwilling to make a public statement.

Denies Report

One news source said the mysterious flying object was picked up by a Ladd field radar installation, but the base public information office denied the report with the terse release: ‘We have had no reports of any radar pickup like that.’

The air force said information gathered from the airline pilots was forwarded to high command for further evaluation. All future press releases will come from there, they added.”

My comment: Here – we once again have U.S. military officials who admit that they sent a UFO report to “high command.” It is not the first time we have seen this.

NOTE: A U.S. Air Force pilot sighted a UFO (Project Blue Book

case) over Ladd Air Force Base [Ladd Army Airfield] on
8 December 1952. Radar also showed the UFO (see link below).

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/25899377/ufo_1952/

Wikipedia article: “Big Delta, Alaska”:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Delta,_Alaska

Wikipedia article: “Ladd Army Airfield”:

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

Quote from the Wikipedia article:

“Ladd Army Airfield (IATA: FBK, ICAO: PAFB, FAA LID: FBK) is the military airfield located at Fort Jonathan Wainwright, located in Fairbanks, Alaska. It was originally called Fairbanks Air Base, but was renamed Ladd Field on 1 December 1939,[4] in honor of Major Arthur K. Ladd, a pilot in the U.S. Army Air Corps who died in a plane crash near Dale, South Carolina on 13 December 1935.[5][6]

History

Origins

The major use of Ladd Field was primarily cold-weather testing of aircraft and equipment. Only Interior Alaska offered the consistently cold temperatures needed. However, the Attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941 forced the temporary halt on testing at Ladd since the military needed all aircraft for the defense of Alaska.

World War II

When the Air Force was made a separate branch in 1947 the name was changed to Ladd Air Force Base. For many years, it would be one of two Air Force bases in the Fairbanks area.

Cold War

From the late 1940s into the 1950s, Ladd AFB served as the northern hub for Air Force activities in Alaska. As headquarters first of the Northern Sector of the Alaskan Air Command and later of the 11th Air Division, Ladd was centrally involved in the Cold War missions of the Alaskan Command and in the transient missions of other military units, including the Strategic Air Command (SAC).

Ladd was not exclusively an Air Force site. The Army was also present to provide antiaircraft (AAA) support and base defense. At Ladd, Cold War activities fell mainly into three time periods: an early phase from 1946–1950; a buildup and support hub phase from 1950–1957; and a transfer phase from 1958–1961, when the installation was turned over to the Army.

During 1946-1950, personnel from Ladd laid some of the groundwork of the early Cold War with strategic reconnaissance and Arctic research projects. Among other missions, they made initial assessments of the Soviet presence in the Arctic; more fully developed the practice of polar navigation; extended Arctic topography; tested cold weather equipment, clothing, and human performance, as well as maintained the area air defenses of the region.

In 1948, as Cold War tensions heightened, the Army's 2nd Infantry sent ground defense soldiers to Ladd.

From the onset of the Korean War in 1950 and continuing through 1957, Ladd saw intense use. It became a busy operations and logistics center with significantly expanded facilities and personnel strength.

As the northern region headquarters of the 11th Air Division, the base was the logistical support center for Alaska's new defense projects. Ladd supported Aircraft Control & Warning (AC&W) sites and forward operating bases such as Galena, Alaska, the northwestern segments of the Distant Early Warning Line (DEW Line), and the White Alice communications network (WACS).”

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Aerial view of Big Delta region [Alaska] (text by Wikipedia)

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Google Website Searches: Focus On UFO Incidents At/Near Strategic Air Command (SAC) Bases

Website: National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP.org):

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NICAP.org article:

“Alphabetical List and Histories of All Nuclear SAC Bases by State or Country”

Text by NICAP.org:

“SAC was established on March 21, 1946 as one of three commands of the US Army Air Forces. Initially under General George Kenny at Bolling Field, Washington, D.C., SAC headquarters settled at Offutt AFB near Omaha, Nebraska under the command of General Curtis LeMay In October of 1948. The new separate Air Force was born September 18, 1947. Part of the SAC Mission certainly was to provide “long range offensive operations in any part of the world” in the form of a nuclear reach as a deterrent to future aggression.

The Alphabetical Review is a list of bases, air stations, and airports that the United States Air Force has occupied since 1947. Many bases have had name changes, so each separate name has been listed.

AB - Air Base, AS - Air Station, AFB - Air Force Base, AFS – Air Force Station, (M/I)AP - (Municipal/International) Airport, RAF - Royal Air Force Station/Base”

https://www.nicap.org/ncp/sac.htm

Wikipedia article: “Strategic Air Command”:

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

Quote from the above Wikipedia article:

“Strategic Air Command (SAC) was both a United States Department of Defense (DoD) Specified Command and a United States Air Force (USAF) Major Command (MAJCOM), responsible for Cold War command and control of two of the three components of the U.S. military's strategic nuclear strike forces, the so-called ‘nuclear triad,’ with SAC having control of land-based strategic bomber aircraft and intercontinental ballistic missiles or ICBMs (the third leg of the triad being submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBM) of the U.S. Navy).

SAC also operated all strategic reconnaissance aircraft, all strategic airborne command post aircraft, and all USAF aerial refueling aircraft, to include those in the Air Force Reserve (AFRES) and Air National Guard (ANG).

However, SAC did not operate the KB-50, WB-50 and WB-47 weather reconnaissance aircraft operated through the mid and late 1960s by the Air Weather Service, nor did SAC operate the HC-130 or MC-130 operations aircraft capable of aerial refueling helicopters that were assigned to Tactical Air Command (TAC), then Military Airlift Command (MAC), and from 1990 onward, those MC-130 aircraft operated by the Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC), or any AFRES (now Air Force Reserve Command (AFRC)) or ANG tactical aerial refueling aircraft (e.g., HC-130, MC-130) operationally gained by TAC, MAC or AFSOC.

SAC primarily consisted of the Second Air Force (2AF), Eighth Air Force (8AF) and the Fifteenth Air Force (15AF), while SAC headquarters (HQ SAC) included Directorates for Operations & Plans, Intelligence, Command & Control, Maintenance, Training, Communications, and Personnel. At a lower echelon, SAC headquarters divisions included Aircraft Engineering, Missile Concept,[1] and Strategic Communications.

In 1992, as part of an overall post-Cold War reorganization of the U.S. Air Force, SAC was disestablished as both a Specified Command and as a MAJCOM, and its personnel and equipment redistributed among the Air Combat Command (ACC), Air Mobility Command (AMC), Pacific Air Forces (PACAF), United States Air Forces in Europe (USAFE), and Air Education and Training Command (AETC), while SAC's central headquarters complex at Offutt AFB, Nebraska was concurrently transferred to the newly created United States Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM), which was established as a joint Unified Combatant Command to replace SAC's Specified Command role.

In 2009, SAC's previous USAF MAJCOM role was reactivated and redesignated as the Air Force Global Strike Command (AFGSC), with AFGSC eventually acquiring claimancy and control of all USAF bomber aircraft and the USAF strategic ICBM force.[2]”

Wikipedia article: “Offutt Air Force Base”:

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

Quote from the Wikipedia article:

“Offutt Air Force Base /ˈʌfæt/ (IATA: OFF, ICAO: KOFF, FAA LID: OFF) is a U.S. Air Force base near Omaha, and lies adjacent to Bellevue in Sarpy County, Nebraska. It is the headquarters of the U.S. Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM), the 557th Weather Wing, and the 55th Wing (55 WG) of the Air Combat Command (ACC), the latter serving as the host unit.

Strategic Air Command

At one minute past midnight, on 9 November 1948, Offutt gained international prominence when it became the host base for Headquarters Strategic Air Command, which was moved from Andrews AFB, Maryland. Secretary of the Air Force Stuart Symington chose to locate the Air Force's crucial long-range atomic strike force at Offutt primarily because the base was centrally located on the North American continent, placing it well beyond the existing range of long-range, nuclear-armed bombers to (then) stay safely out of range of hostile missiles or bomber aircraft.”

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Map of Strategic Air Command (SAC)/

STRATCOM Military Bases, U.S.A. 

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This is a photo I took of Offutt Air Force Base near Omaha,

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Google Website Searches: Focus On UFO News Articles From the Year 1950

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UFO news article:

“Air Guard Members Wary Of Identifying

Strange Object Over Key Field”

14 April 1950

(The Clarion-Ledger, Jackson, Mississippi)

Source: Newspapers.com

The whole article:
“Not that they were afraid of being criticized or disbelieved, but members of the 153rd Fighter Squadron Thursday would neither confirm nor deny the identity of flying object sighted at 8:25 Wednesday night [12 April 1950] over Key Field as a flying saucer. However, several pilots confirmed sighting an unidentified object ‘of extreme speed’ identified only by a white flickering light, not a normal aircraft light, as it raced south-southeastward.

The object ‘definitely out of propeller type aircraft classification’ due to its speed, was seen but 15 seconds during its flight near Key Field.

Several F-47 Air National Guard fighter planes were in the air and were radioed to proceed toward the southeast quadrant to get a view of the lighted but otherwise unidentified flying object. These planes were in the area within 30 seconds, but failed to sight the intruder the object was at an estimated 2,500 feet altitude. The light followed a straight course, bearing southward and slightly east on a horizontal plane, indicating it was a piloted or controlled object rather than a meteor.

‘It was definitely not propeller driven due to the speed,’ veteran pilots observed. ‘It could have been a jet plane but there were no regular red and green running lights and the flickering light streak was unexplained. Also jets generally fly at a much higher altitude.”

NOTE: Key Field was a Strategic Air Command (SAC) base, according to NICAP.org.

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/13241980/clarionledger/

Wikimedia article: “Meridian Regional Airport” [Key Field]:

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

Quote from the Wikipedia article:

“Meridian Regional Airport[1] (IATA: MEI[3], ICAO: KMEI, FAA LID: MEI) is a public use airport located at Key Field,[2] a joint use public/military airfield. It is located 3 nautical miles (5.6 km; 3.5 mi) southwest of Meridian, a city in Lauderdale County, Mississippi, United States.[2] The airport is owned by the Meridian Airport Authority.[2] At 10,003 feet (3,049 m), Key Field is home to the longest public use runway in Mississippi.[4] It is mostly used for general aviation and military traffic, but is also served by one commercial airline with scheduled passenger service subsidized by the Essential Air Service program.

Air National Guard use

Key Field is home to the Mississippi Air National Guard's 186th Air Refueling Wing (186 ARW), at the Air National Guard enclave, Key Field Air National Guard Base. Operationally gained by the Air Mobility Command (AMC), the 186 ARW operates a fleet of KC-135R Stratotanker aerial refueling and cargo aircraft.[4]

Key Field is also home to the Mississippi Army National Guard's 111th Army Aviation Support Facility, Company B. The 111th operates a fleet of CH-47 Chinook helicopters, a multipurpose transport/cargo helicopter capable of carrying 55 troops and gear or can also sling-load up to 25,000 pounds.[4]

Navy T-45 Goshawk aircraft from nearby NAS Meridian and Air Force T-6A, T-1A and T-38C aircraft from Columbus AFB also frequently practice approaches and other procedures over Key Field.

Aircraft Rescue and Firefighting (ARFF) capabilities are provided by the Air National Guard. Due to their mission as an air refueling wing, the ANG ARFF assets provide the entire airport with firefighting capabilities that will rival any airport in the Southeastern United States.”

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