NICAP.org UFO case report (by Dan Wilson) (nicap.org):
“May 14, 1978; Pinecastle Electronic Warfare Range, Florida
At 10:00 and 10:10 p.m. local time, the Pinecastle
Duty Officer at the U.S. Navy Pinecastle Electronic Warfare Range received two
calls from unidentified civilians reporting a UFO with red, green and white
lights. The control tower was notified and the watchstander observed stationary
lights at an estimated altitude of 1600 feet in the area reported by the callers.
Orders went out to activate the MSQ-102 Radar. After a 20 minute warm up the
radar detected a unidentified blip ‘fluttering’ over the CD Tower. The tracking
computer was put on the unidentified target which was showing very little
movement. The target was observed for approximately one hour when it began to
move at about 400-500 knots. The radar operator said he tried to ‘train’ the
radar on the object but it accelerated rapidly, evading his efforts to lock and
track it on the computer. When he caught up with the object, it reversed direction
and started back toward Pinecastle. The radar operator finally locked on the
object after it had practically stopped moving. Shortly after the target broke
radar lock. Collins, the radar operator had been operating radar for most of
his eight years of service. A total of eight Naval personnel visually observed
red, green and white lights of the object from the control tower for over an
hour.”
Wikipedia article: “Naval Air Station Cecil Field”:
Quote from the Wikipedia article:
“Naval Air Station Cecil Field or NAS Cecil Field (IATA: NZC, ICAO:
KNZC, FAA LID: NZC) was a United States Navy air base, located in Duval County, Florida.
Prior to 1999, NAS Cecil Field was the largest military base in terms of acreage
in the Jacksonville, Florida area.
NAS Cecil Field consisted of four separate facilities, the NAS Cecil Field
Complex (Cecil Field), Outlying Field Whitehouse (OLF Whitehouse), the Yellow
Water Weapons Department and the Pinecastle [Pine
Castle] Electronic Warfare Target Area
/ Warfare Range. Including nearly 2,500
acres (10 km²) at OLF Whitehouse, the NAS Cecil Field complex consisted of 22,939
acres (92.8 km²); in addition, the base leased another 8,379
acres (33.9 km²). By late 1999, approximately 17,200
acres (69.6 km²) were transferred to the civilian sector in the form of the
Jacksonville Aviation Authority, while the remainder was transferred to Naval
Air Station Jacksonville.”
Wikipedia article: “Ocala
National Forest”:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocala_National_Forest
Quote from the Wikipedia article:
“The United States Navy’s Pinecastle
Bombing Range
in the Ocala National Forest is the only place on the
East Coast where the Navy can do live impact training. The Navy drops nearly
20,000 bombs a year at the site, a few hundred of which are live. The
Pinecastle Bombing Range is a fenced 5,760 acres (23.3 km2) area, with the eastern edge of the range located about 2
miles (3.2 km) west of State
Road 19 and the Camp Ocala campgrounds, and one-half mile (800 m) west of the Farles Lake campground. F/A-18 Hornet jet fighters and
other aircraft take off from Naval Air Station Jacksonville or from aircraft
carriers off the Florida
coast, fly low over the forest, and drop their bombs in the middle 450
acres (1.8 km2) of the range. P-3 Orion and P-8 Poseidon aircraft will also
use an instrumented range in the southeast quadrant of Lake
George to conduct aerial mining training utilizing inert 500lb
mines. All air-to-ground exercises using conventional ordnance up to and
including 500 pounds (230 kg) MK 82 bombs
and five-inch (127 mm) Zuni rockets
are authorized. Napalm and High Explosive Incendiary (HEI) are prohibited. Live
ordnance is restricted to the Live Ordnance Impact Area; inert ordnance is used
on all other targets. Pinecastle targets have also been certified for laser
operations. The Navy has used the area for target practice for 50 years under a
special use permit from the U.S. Forest Service.”
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