UFO Case Directory (RADCAT): “Several Radar Contacts Jan. 28, 1953 Albany and Dobbins, Georgia”

(NICAP.org)

The whole UFO case report:

“Brad Sparks:

Jan. 28, 1953; Turner AFB, Dobbins, Georgia (BBU 2365)

9:40-10:00 p.m. (EST). USAF senior pilot at Moody AFB, Major Hal W. Lamb, apparently saw the setting planet Venus changing color and shape (at 267°-270° azimuth 3° elevation  dropping below horizon, his estimates varying from 250° to 295°-310° azimuth) while flying a T-33, also seen by Turner AFB tower operators (with time errors of about 10 mins). At about 9:40-9:48 (reported as 9:50-9:58) two GCA radar maintenance men at Turner AFB radar tracked 3 moving targets and a stationary target (at due W 270° azimuth 26 miles?). At 10:00 (reported as 10:10), the GCA reported 2 stationary targets at 17 and 27 (or 23­ 27?) miles both 300° azimuth. No visual confirmation though binoculars used. (Jan Aldrich; FUFOR Index)

Dan Wilson:

Jan. 28, 1953; Albany, Georgia

At 9:50 p.m. EST, Albany radio called Turner AFB tower and asked the operators on duty to look west of the field and see if they observed any strange objects. A circular object changing colors from glowing orange to white was observed at 250 degrees azimuth 15 degrees above the horizon. The tower operators watched the object for a period of eight minutes until it disappeared. During this eight minute period GCA was contacted and two maintenance men were doing work on the radar and turned the set on and they reported that they picked up 3 or 4 objects on the scope, 3 moving and 1 stationary. These objects were at approximately 300 degrees at 27 miles. (Dan Wilson)

At 21:35 hours (9:35 p.m.) EST, a pilot flying a T-33 jet aircraft reported that he observed an unusually bright light NW of Albany, Georgia. At first the object appeared to be circular in shape and white in color. When the object was first sighted the T-33 was at 4000 feet and the object appeared to be slightly above the aircraft. At the end of the observation the aircraft was at 10,000 feet and the object appeared to be below the plane. The last 15 seconds of observation the object changed from circular in shape to triangular and then split in two triangles one above the other and then they disappeared suddenly. According to the sighting report radar contact was made with the object by Albany Airport. (Dan Wilson)”

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

http://www.nicap.org/530128georgia_dir.htm

Wikipedia article: “Moody Air Force Base”:

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

Quote from the above Wikipedia article:

“Moody Air Force Base (AFB) (IATA: VAD, ICAO: KVAD, FAA LID: VAD) is a United States Air Force installation near Valdosta, Georgia.

History

The 29th Training Wing was established at Moody Field in 1941 for primary flight training.[2] On 1 May 1945 Moody was transferred to the First Air Force.[2]:351 On 1 November 1945 Moody was transferred to Army Air Forces Training Command.[2]:351 On 1 September 1947 Moody was transferred to Tactical Air Command.[2]:351 On 13 January 1948 the base was redesignated Moody Air Force Base.[2]:351 On 1 December 1948 the base was transferred to Continental Air Command.[2]:351 On 1 April 1951 Moody AFB was transferred to Strategic Air Command (SAC).”

Wikipedia article: “Naval Air Station Albany”:

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

Quote from the Wikipedia article:
“Naval Air Station Albany (formerly Turner Air Force Base and Turner Field) is a former United States Air Force and United States Navy military airfield located in Albany, Georgia.

History

Turner Field (1941-1946)

In mid-1940 the U.S. Army Air Corps approached the city of Albany about the possibility of building a training base near Albany. The city raised the necessary money and purchased 4,900 acres of land which was then leased to the Army for $51 a year. Construction of the base and airfield, named Air Corps Advanced Flying School, Albany by the United States Army Corps of Engineers began on 25 March 1941.[1] On 21 July 1941, the field was named Turner Field in honor of Lt. Sullivan Turner, a Georgia native killed in a midair collision.[2]

Once operational, Turner Field was used for acclimatization training (for foreign trainees) and advanced flight training as part of the 30th Flying Training Wing. Primary flight training in the Boeing-Stearman PT-17 Kaydet was done at Darr Aero Tech also in Albany.[3] Under the Arnold Scheme some 5,000 Royal Air Force trainees were trained at Turner Field and Darr Aero Tech between 1941 and 1943.[4] In 1944 Turner Field began training Free French Air Forces pilots to fly the North American B-25 Mitchell of which more than 100 were based at Turner Field.[5]

Turner Field was deactivated on 15 August 1946 and maintained in caretaker status.[2]

Turner Air Force Base (1947-1966)

On 1 April 1947, the airfield was reactivated.[2] On 13 January 1948, it was renamed Turner Air Force Base.

On 20 November 1947 the 31st Tactical Fighter Wing equipped with North American F-51 Mustangs moved there from Langley Field and would remain there until 25 August 1948.[6]

In 1950 the base was transferred from Continental Air Command (CAC) to Strategic Air Command (SAC).[7]

The 40th Air Division was based at Turner from 14 March 1951 to 1 April 1957.[8]

The 508th Fighter-Escort Wing (later renamed the 508th Strategic Fighter Wing) was based at Turner from July 1952 until 11 May 1956.[6]:275

The 4080th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing was established at Turner in May 1956 and based there until 1 April 1957.

The base was transferred from SAC to Tactical Air Command (TAC) in 1957 when SAC gave up its escort mission, however, the base would be returned to SAC on 1 January 1959 when the 822d Air Division was established there on 1 January 1959.[7]:74–5 The 822nd Air Division would remain at Turner until it was inactivated on 2 September 1966.[9] One of the component units of the 822nd Air Division was the 4138th Strategic Wing which was activated at Turner and received its first combat aircraft when the 336th Bombardment Squadron, equipped with 15 B-52 Stratofortresses moved to Turner from Biggs AFB, Texas. In February 1963, the 4138th Strategic Wing and 336th Bombardment Squadron were inactivated and the 484th Bombardment Wing was activated at Turner to assume the mission, aircraft, personnel and equipment of the 4138th wing.[6]:270–1

In December 1965 it was announced that Turner Air Force Base would be closed.[7]:111

Naval Air Station Albany (1967-1974)

RVAH-14 RA-5C Vigilante over NAS Albany in 1969

The base was recommissioned as Naval Air Station Albany on 1 July 1967.[10]

With the impending closure of Naval Air Station Sanford, Reconnaissance Attack Wing One moved to NAS Albany and it became the main operational base for the Navy's North American RA-5C Vigilante until 1974 when operations were moved to NAS Key West, Florida.”

Wikipedia article: “Albany, Georgia”:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albany,_Georgia

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Turner Army Airfield, about 1947 still in its World War II

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Location [of Albany] in Dougherty County and Georgia

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UFO Website (Blog) Searches: UFO Newspaper Articles by Year

Website (blog): Archived UFO newspaper reports

(ufonewspaper.blogspot.com)

Newspaper articles (as of 10 January 2019) by year:

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UFO news article:

“Strange Object Seen Over Cherokee County”

31 July 1952

(Sioux City Journal, Iowa)

The whole article:

“There is another report Wednesday (30 July 1952) of mysterious flying objects in Iowa skies, this time from Cherokee county.

Six persons reported seeing a number of disc-shaped silver objects speeding high above a farm near Larrabee. The witnesses reported the discs appeared to hover in the sky at times and remained in sight more than an hour before heading northward out of sight.”

http://ufonewspaper.blogspot.com/2019/01/discs-hover-over-1952-iowa.html

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Satellite photo of Larrabee, Iowa (tageo.com)

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U.S. Government UFO Document: “PROJECT 10073 RECORD (CARD): DATE - TIME GROUP: 23 January 65/ LOCATION: Williamsburg, Virginia”

(Project Blue Book, U.S. Air Force, Washington, D.C.)

Source: NICAP.org

Quote from the document:

“Witnesses [sic] car stalled. He looked out of window and observed an object 70-80 ft in height, 10 ft in diameter at bottom and 25 ft in diameter at the top. Metallic grey color with red-orange color or glow on close side and blue glow on far side. Sound similar to vaccum cleaner as object departed. Shape of object like a mushroom or light bulb. Object observed hovering about 4 ft off the ground. Object vanished by moving horizontally to the West. WX was partly cloudy. Additional witness reportedly had car stalled too. Isolated low clouds in the area.

COMMENTS: With the shape reported as a mushroom, a low cloud close to the observer is unlikely. One (cloud) further away might assume this shape. A cloud observation or some unusual WX phenomena might trigger the report however this would not account for the reported car stalling. Case regarded as UNIDENTIFIED.”

http://www.nicap.org/docs/650123williamsburg_docs.pdf

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Satellite photo of Williamsburg, Virginia (tageo.com)

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UFO Case Directory (E-M Cases): “UFO Hovering Over Field Stalls Cars Jan. 23, 1965 Lightfoot, N. of Williamsburg, Virginia”

(NICAP.org)

The whole UFO case report:

“Brad Sparks:

Jan. 23, 1965; Lightfoot, N of Williamsburg, Virginia (BBU 9242)

8:40 a.m. Cars stalled near intersection of US Hwy 60 and State Route 614, witness T. F. Mains saw light-bulb or mushroom-shaped object 75-80 ft tall, 10-25 ft wide, metallic gray, red-orange and blue glows, hovering over nearby field about 4 ft off the ground, making a vacuum cleaner-type noise, suddenly accelerate horizontally to the W against the wind and disappear. (25-seconds, 2 witnesses). (UFOE II, Section VIII; Berliner; cf. Hynek UFO Rpt pp. 177-8; Vallée Magonia 633)

Fran Ridge:

Interesting that this incident was listed in the Blue Book files as Unidentified. Investigation shows duration of 25 seconds with two witnesses in separate cars, both stalled. (See BB docs below). The latest update is from Mike Swords and a letter to Richard Hall from a witness.

Martin Shough:

This is an extremely interesting case and, as far as one can tell from the file, it feels pretty solid. Ignoring the car stallings (which is not so easily done, given two vehicles) about the only thing that seems half-way plausible is a hot-air balloon (shape, lift-off, near horizontal motion, colour, light, noise like a vaccuum cleaner). But the departure direction is west, which would be into the wind (about WSW according to the file). Very curious! What a shame we don’t have the police report from the second witness.”

NICAP.org presents U.S. government (U.S. Air Force) documents that pertain to the UFO case.

http://www.nicap.org/650123williamsburg_dir.htm

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UFO Journal Article: “Virginia 1965 Flap”

By Donald B. Hanlon

(Flying Saucer Review (London, UK), Volume 12, No.2, 1966)

Source: NICAP.org

Donald B. Hanlon reports on the November/December 1964/January 1965 Virginia UFO flap:

http://www.nicap.org/articles/FSR66v12No02_65Flap.pdf

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Map of Virginia (lib.utexas.edu)

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UFO Article:
“Vietnam UFO landing at U.S. base
discovered by National Archives”
by J. Antonio Huneeus, 7 July 2011
(OpenMinds.tv, Tempe, Arizona)

J. Antonio Huneeus reports on a 6 January 1969 (at 1:52 a.m.) UFO landing at the Chu Lai Air Base (64 kilometres (40 miles) south-east of Da Nang):

http://www.openminds.tv/vietnam-ufo-landing-at-u-s-base-discovered-by-national-archives/

Chu Lai Air Base was a military airport in Chu Lai, operated by the United States Marine Corps between 1965 and 1970, according to Wikipedia.org.













Aerial view of Chu Lai Air Base (chulaiairfield)
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UFO News Article:
“Family Watched: Resident Reports ‘Pretty’ UFO”,
26 January 1965
(The Free Lance-Star, Fredericksburg, Virginia)

Witnesses in Fredericksburg and Marion, Virginia experienced UFO sightings on the night of 25 January 1965, The Free Lance-Star reports:

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=QMpNAAAAIBAJ&sjid=MooDAAAAIBAJ&pg=7338,1761267

Marion is situated 393 kilometres (244 miles) south west of Fredericksburg.

“Fredericksburg, Virginia” (City-Data.com):

http://www.city-data.com/city/Fredericksburg-Virginia.html

“Marion, Virginia” (City-Data.com):

http://www.city-data.com/city/Marion-Virginia.html

Map of Viginia (lib.utexas.edu)
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UFO Video Report:
“Archivos E.D.O.V.N.I.: El OVNI de la Isla Decepcion”
(“E.D.O.V.N.I. Archives: The Deception Island UFO”)

This is a video report regarding the 3 July 1965 Deception Island UFO case, according to the video source:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8yQxXkb6w4

Argentine Navy personnel of the naval detachments on Deception Island and Laurie Island (Orcadas Islands) in Antarctica sighted a UFO on 3 July 1965.

The video report is made by Dr. Luis Alberto Reinoso, director of the Argentine UFO group, EDOVNI.

I also reported on this UFO case on 18 January 2011:

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The location of Deception Island, Antarctica
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UFO News Article:
“Washington Report by Fulton Lewis”,
22 February 1965 (Reading Eagle, Pennsylvania)

The article focuses partly on the November/December 1964/January 1965 Virginia UFO flap:

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=JcgtAAAAIBAJ&sjid=iJwFAAAAIBAJ&pg=3732,3332323

Quote from the article:
“Maj. Keyhoe has some impressive support. Vice Admiral Roscoe Hillenkoetter (retired), a former director of the Central Intelligence Agency, says: ‘The unknown objects are operating under intelligent control. It is imperative that we learn where they come from.’

An official of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Deputy Public Affairs Director Albert M. Chop, has ‘been convinced for a long time’ that the saucers are interplanetary.

The Air Force does not deny that certain UFOs may have

been operated by creatures from outer space. It says only that no

UFO ‘has ever given any indication of a threat to our national 
security.’ ”

Albert M. Chop, NASA Deputy Public Affairs Officer (in 1965)

UFO News Article:
“Vive Argentina oleada OVNI en 2008”
(“Live Argentina UFO wave in 2008”),
31 January 2009 (El Siglo de Torreón, Mexico)

Argentina experienced a big UFO wave in 2008, according to FAO Director Luis Burgos. Furthermore, Burgos says that Argentina also experienced big UFO waves in 1962, 1965, 1968, 1978, 1985, 1999 and 2002:

http://www.elsiglodetorreon.com.mx/noticia/408953.vive-argentina-oleada-ovni-en-2008.html

English translation:
“Live Argentina UFO wave in 2008”:

http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&sl=es&tl=en&u=http://www.elsiglodetorreon.com.mx/noticia/408953.vive-argentina-oleada-ovni-en-2008.html&prev=_t&rurl=translate.google.com&twu=1&usg=ALkJrhgSlUqGT0ztahmGDQJXF9Mu1AmYgw

Luis Burgos,
Fundacion Argentina
de Ovnilogia (FAO) Director
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Sightings (TV Series): 

“UFOS OVER FDR”

(Sci Fi Channel, U.S.A.)

Source: TVUFOFootage (YouTube channel)

This Sightings episode focuses on the many UFO sightings that have occurred over the aircraft carrier USS Franklin D. Roosevelt throughout the years:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIiSFTvjy5Q

The TV report includes a UFO photograph that was taken by a newspaper reporter.

USS FDR carried both conventionally- and nuclear-armed aircraft. And UFOs have been sighted many times near nuclear research facilities, power plants, weapons storage facilities, ICBM weapons sites and aircraft carriers in the United States, UK and Russia (Soviet Union).

USS Franklin D. Roosevelt (Midway class) history:

* USS FDR was commissioned on 27 October 1945.
* 1946: Took part in the first McDonnell XFD-1 Phantom and Lockheed P-80A jets tests.
* From 8 August to 4 October 1946: Was a part of a U.S. Navy force that visited Athens to bolster the government of Greece in the Greek Civil War.
* In 1950: USS FDR became the first carrier to take nuclear weapons to sea. Troops (Operation Magic Carpet).
* In September and October 1952: Participated in Operation Mainbrace, the first major NATO exercise in the North Atlantic.
* During 1954-1956: Was extensively modernised.
* From August 1966 to January 1967: The ship’s only deployment to South East Asia.
* During 1954-1956: Was extensively modernised for second time.
* In the October 1973 Yom Kippur War: Served as a transit 'landing field' for aircraft being delivered to Israel.
* From June 1976 to April 1977: Embarked Marine Attack Squadron 231 (VMA-231) with 14 AV-8A Harrier jets.
* USS FDR was decommissioned on 30 September 1977.

USS Franklin D. Roosevelt took part in the following wars:

Greek Civil War (1944-1949)
Vietnam War (1st period) (1965-1968)
Yom Kippur War (1973)

Water UFO.net UFO reports:
“Aircraft Carriers, Other Large Ships and UFOs”:

USS Franklin D. Roosevelt UFO reports (dates):
02-??-1952, 09-19/20-1952, ??-??-1953, ??-??-1954, 07-26-1956, 05-15-1957, 10-??-1958, LL-??-1963, 05-01-1975:

http://www.waterufo.net/aircraftcarriers.php

Wikipedia article: “USS Franklin D. Roosevelt (CV-42)”:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Franklin_D._Roosevelt_(CV-42)

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U.S.S. Franklin D. Roosevelt (CV-42)
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