UFO Case Report: “Jan. 8, 1953; Larson AFB, Moses Lake, Wash. (BBU 2323)”

(NICAP.org)

The whole UFO case report:

“7:15-7:30 a.m. (PST). USAF ADC 82nd Fighter Interceptor Sq personnel, including Lt Col squadron commander, all on the ground, saw a green, discshaped or round object about the size of large weather balloon, flying to the SW, with a vertical bobbing motion and sideways movements, at about 8,000 ft, below scattered clouds at 9,000 ft and overcast at 12,000 ft, moving away against the wind from 240° until disappearance due to distance not entering clouds. Also observed by base personnel at Ephrata, Wash., about 10 miles WNW of Larson AFB, driving to work at the base. F-94 airborne at 7:43 a.m. searched for 30 mins but UFO had already disappeared at 7:30 a.m. No radar tracks. (Sparks; BB files; Berliner; McDonald 1968)”

http://www.nicap.org/chronos/1953fullrep.htm

Wikipedia article: “Larson Air Force Base”:

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

Quote from the Wikipedia article:

“Larson Air Force Base is a former United States Air Force base located five miles (8 km) northwest of the central business district (CBD) of Moses Lake, in Grant County, Washington. After its closure in 1966, the airport facility became Grant County International Airport.

Air Defense Command

Moses Lake AFB reopened as a permanent installation on 26 August 1948, being transferred from Air Material Command to the Air Defense Command (ADC). The initial ADC base operating unit was the 2755th Air Base Squadron. Under ADC, the base came under the Western Air Defense Force, headquartered at Hamilton AFB, California.

Interceptors

The primary mission of Larson-based ADC aircraft was to protect the secret Hanford Atomic Works and the Grand Coulee Dam.

The first ADC flying unit to arrive was the 325th Fighter-Interceptor Group, which arrived on 26 November 1948. The mission of the 325th FIG was to conduct ADC's All Weather Combat Crew Training School. Its operational component, the 317th Fighter Interceptor Squadron, initially flew Northrop P-61 Black Widows, almost immediately transitioning to the North American F-82 Twin Mustang. A second squadron, the 319th Fighter Interceptor Squadron arrived on 2 September 1949, being reassigned from McChord AFB. The 319th also flew the F-82 Twin Mustang.[8][9] The 325th FIG remained at Moses Lake until being reassigned to McChord AFB on 23 April 1950, along with the 317th FIS. The 319th remained until 9 February 1952 when it was reassigned to Suwon Air Base, South Korea flying F-94 Starfires.[8]

The next ADC unit was the 81st Fighter-Interceptor Wing which arrived from 10 November 1949. The 81st FIW flew F-51D/H Mustangs, F-80C Shooting Stars and North American F-86 Sabres from the base. The 81st remained until 5 September 1951 when it was reassigned to NATO and deployed to RAF Shepherds Grove in the United Kingdom.[10][11] During the Korean War, the 116th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron, Washington Air National Guard was called to active duty and activated at Moses Lake. The 116th FIS was deployed as part of the 81st Tactical Fighter Wing to RAF Shepherds Grove.

Tactical Air Command

On 21 April 1952, Larson AFB was assigned to the Tactical Air Command (TAC) under TAC's Eighteenth Air Force, which reassigned the 62nd Troop Carrier Wing from McChord AFB, Washington to the base.

Strategic Air Command

In 1960, control of Larson AFB passed from TAC to Strategic Air Command (SAC) with the 4170th Strategic Wing as the host unit. In 1963, the 4170th was redesignated as the 462d Strategic Aerospace Wing with B-52E Stratofortress and KC-135A Stratotanker aircraft.”

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USGS digital orthophoto of Larson Air Force Base in

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U.S. Government UFO Document: “PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD: DATE - TIME GROUP: 10 Jan 53/ LOCATION: Sonoma, California”

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

Source: NICAP.org

Quote from the document:

“Silvery object traveled at estimated speed of 4 times the speed of jet a/c. Object made 3 360° turns and several 90° turns, then rose vertically and disappeared.”

Retired U.S. Air Force Colonel Robert McNab and Mr. Hunter of the Federal Security Agency witnessed the UFO incident, according to NICAP.org.

Project Blue Book listed the case as “UNIDENTIFIED.”

http://www.nicap.org/docs/530110sonoma_docs.pdf

http://www.nicap.org/reports/530110sonoma_report.htm

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UFO Case Directory (Distant Encounters): “Flat Object At 2,400 MPR Jan. 10, 1953 Sonoma, California”

(NICAP.org)

The whole UFO case report:

“Brad Sparks:

Jan. 10, 1953; 8 miles NW of Sonoma, Calif. (BBU 2326)
3:45 or 4 p.m. [4:45 p.m. PST?] Retired AF Col. Robert McNab, and Mr. Hunter of the Federal Security Agency saw a flat object to the NW at 45° elevation traveling about 2,400 mph make three 360° right turns in 2-3 secs each in about 1/8 radius required for jets [i.e., about 1/4 mile radius and 300 g’s], two abrupt 90° turns to the right and left, each turn 5 secs apart, almost stop, accelerate to original high speed, almost stop again, speed up again and finally fly out of sight vertically. Sound similar to F-86 at high altitude. (Hynek UFO Rpt pp. 115-6)”

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

http://www.nicap.org/530110sonoma_dir.htm

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UFO Case Directory (SIGHTINGS FROM AIRCRAFT): “Marine Fighter Asked To Check On Amber Object Jan. 28, 1953 Eltoro [El Toro] Marine Base, California”

(NICAP.org)

The whole UFO case report:

“9:00 p.m. PST Duration 5 mins aircraft marine fighter United States

Military mult observers No EMI No radar contact

Dan Wilson:

Jan. 28, 1953; El Toro Marine Air Base, Calif. (BB)
9:00 p.m. PST. A bright object was first observed at the El Toro Marine Air Base by a tower operator who said it was at about 1000 feet over the field and moving in a westerly direction. The tower operator then ordered an all weather jet fighter which was coming in for a landing to make an investigation. The pilot, Major Harvey N. Patton and his radar operator Sgt. Rothblatt began to chase the object. Just before getting this message Patton had seen the object which was moving at various elevations and was amber. The Marine jet chased the object described as a round amber light for approximately 5 minutes until the jet ran low on fuel and was forced to turn back to the base. Major Patton said that during the chase his altitude ranged from 3,000 to 4,000 feet. At first Patton sighted an amber colored object and turned to pursue it. Patton picked up speed toward Newport Beach and at this time the object turned and swung northwest toward Long Beach. A few minutes later Edward S. Downs, Civil Aeronautics tower controller at the Long Beach Airport spotted what he described as a an orange object resembling a ball of fire at an altitude of several thousand feet near the airport. The object was traveling west out over the ocean. (Number of observers: Two in the air, (pilot and radar operator), and two tower controllers on the ground. Many others on the ground.)”

NICAP.org presents two news articles (Project Blue Book (U.S. government) documents) that pertain to the UFO case.

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

Wikipedia article: “Marine Corps Air Station El Toro”:

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

Quote from the Wikipedia article:

“Marine Corps Air Station El Toro (ICAO: KNZJ, FAA LID: NZJ) was a United States Marine Corps Air Station located near Irvine, California.

Before it was decommissioned in 1999, it was the 4,682-acre (19 km2) home of Marine Corps aviation on the West Coast. Designated as a Master Jet Station, its four runways (two of 8,000 feet (2,400 m) and two of 10,000 feet (3,000 m)) could handle the largest aircraft in the U.S. military inventory. While it was active, all U.S. Presidents in the post-World War II era landed in Air Force One at this airfield. The El Toro "Flying Bull" patch was designed by Walt Disney Studios in 1944.[2] It survived virtually unchanged until the close of the Air Station.”

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Cropped version of this file El Toro Marine base 2011

[or 2010, according to the main Wikipedia page]
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UFO Video Interview: “Tic Tac Witness Ryan Weigelt Interview”

Published: 20 October 2019

(The Nimitz Encounters (YouTube channel))

Video text:

“Meet navy vet AD1(AW) Ryan Weigelt. Ryan was present on the USS Princeton (CG-59) during the tic tac encounters of November, 2004. He was a helicopter maintenance training instructor. As a member of the squadron assigned to the ship with HSL-43 Detachment 5, the ‘Battlecats’, Ryan was a LPO or leading petty officer, training up to 20 people pre-deployment on the operations and maintenance of the SH-60B Seahawks. Ryan’s navy career spanned 15 years before he left the service in 2012. His extensive expertise in Sea Hawk system maintenance and operations covers all aspects of the anti-submarine helicopters. During the workups off San Diego, Ryan witnessed several very unusual events that lend credence to the reports from the other navy vets as told in the Nimitz Encounters documentary. Listen as Ryan recounts those events for the first time. I conducted this interview Friday October 11th. Ryan has provided me with his DD-214 Military Separation Papers and I have photo’s proving his navy career. He was an aviation machinists’ mate petty officer first class, anti-submarine warfare operator.”

The YouTube channel is run by U.S. filmmaker David C. Beaty.

The November 2004 USS Nimitz Carrier Strike Group 11 UFO incidents occurred about a hundred miles south west of San Diego, California. The main UFO incident occurred on 14 November 2004 (Fravor and Slaight).

To my knowledge, nine U.S. Navy personnel, Sean Cahill, Kevin M. Day, David Fravor, Patrick J. Hughes, Omar Lara, Jim Slaight, Jason Turner, Gary Voorhis and Ryan Weigelt, have talked about the UFO incidents on the Internet.

Sean Cahill was the Chief Master-at-Arms aboard the USS Princeton.

Kevin M. Day was a radar operator aboard the USS Princeton.

David Fravor, who chased the UFO (resembled a white Tic Tac), was flying his F/A-18F Super Hornet jet fighter. It was not Fravor who filmed the 14 November 2004 Tic Tac UFO. The UFO was filmed a while after Fravor’s incident.

At the time of the UFO incident, Fravor was the commanding officer of the VFA-41 Black Aces, a U.S. Navy strike fighter squadron.

P. J. Hughes was an aviation technician aboard the USS Nimitz.

Omar Lara was a Flight Decker in Air Ops aboard the USS Nimitz.

Lieutenant Commander (later Commander) Jim Slaight was the pilot of the second F/A-18F Super Hornet jet fighter.

Jason Turner was a Petty Officer Third Class (in Supply) aboard the USS Princeton.

Gary Voorhis was a Fire Controlman Petty Officer Third Class aboard the USS Princeton.

AD1(AW) Ryan Weigelt, Aviation Machinist’s Mate Petty Officer 1st Class, was present on the USS Princeton during the November 2004 UFO encounters.

A large number of UFOs were recorded on radar on and off for several days during the November 2004 U.S. Navy exercise, according to USS Princeton radar operator Kevin M. Day.

Gary Voorhis experienced that the unknown objects “zoomed around at ridiculous speeds and angles and trajectories,” and that “it (the UFOs) was moving faster than our radar could register.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QawDa0-UlnA

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TV UFO Footage (NASA): 2 Unknown Objects Filmed From the ISS

Source: singleaple (YouTube channel)

The objects appear to move above the atmosphere.

I agree with the source of the footage, who writes that he does not believe that they are shooting stars. Shooting stars do not light up in outer space.

In my opinion – the objects are self-luminous – therefore they must be unidentified flying objects. Satellites are not self-luminous, for example. Satellites are illuminated by the Sun, and are visible from the ground, but, again, in my opinion – these objects are self-luminous. 

The validity of the footage cannot be questioned – since it comes from the International Space Station.

The unknown objects can be seen (repeated footage) at 0:18 (right side of the screen), 0:40, 0:58, 1:04 and 1:38.

It is not known when the footage was recorded.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mj0JN9C6EDw

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

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UFO Article (Redux): The Marit Semeleng UFO Photograph, Valdres Mountains, Norway, Autumn 1983, Daytime (with Involvement by the Royal Norwegian MoD)

UFO-Norge Web article by Odd-Gunnar Røed, UFO-Norge, 1996 in Norwegian (with UFO photograph):

http://www.ufo.no/index.php?q=oldarticle.php&year=96&name=valdres96-3.html

Below you’ll find the UFO-Norge article, translated into English:
“Marit Semeleng from Valdres, Norway, experienced something strange on a berry picking trip together with her husband in the autumn of 1983. She saw and photographed a bin-like object in the sky before it suddenly disappeared after only 5-6 seconds.

A flying ‘trash bin’?

13 years ago, Marit Semeleng, who was then 66 years old, saw a strange phenomenon. Together with her husband, she was on a berry picking trip in the Valdres Mountains. She had just taken some photos with a camera (Kodak 224 with fixed optics) she had brought with her on their trip, when she suddenly saw a glare over their heads. The object was as bright as the sun, and she reacted almost on reflex and took a photograph, before the object disappeared for good. It all happened so fast that her husband didn’t see anything.

The result of her fast reaction can be seen in the photo. The object in the photograph is hard to make sense of, perhaps, but the fact that she saw this object and then photographed it, is a strong argument for that this photo shows something quite extraordinary. It is natural to compare the photographed object with an old trash bin. In addition, one can see two strong light sources on the front of the object.

The negative disappeared at the Norwegian MoD

Some years after the experience, she sent the negative of the photograph to an official at the Fagernes Police Office, who in turn sent it to an official at the Royal Norwegian Ministry of Defence’s Defence Intelligence Service. The latter person had previously been a police officer and was a friend of the officials at the Fagernes Police Office.

The negative disappeared at the Ministry of Defence and has not yet been delivered back to Marit Semeleng (as of 1996). She received a letter from the MoD, where she was told that the object, which is shown in the photo, is a damage on the film.

But then why not return the negative to the owner? Marit Semeleng is after all the rightful owner of the photo and she had seen the object she had photographed.

UFO-Norge is at the moment trying to locate the negative and we will write more about this story in number 4.

Mysterious tracks

Marit Semeleng stood in the woods, with a strange feeling of having witnessed something unexplainable. She had seen something highly luminous, silent and very fast-flying. The colour was intensely white. Marit Semeleng doesn’t know of anyone else, who has witnessed the same as she did.

Someone discovered strange vehicle tracks in the area, where the photo was taken, even though it’s only possible to get there by walking. The vehicle tracks were found on stone surface in the area.”

My comment: As seen in the Espevær, Norway, UFO case (the MoD investigated the case) and in this UFO photograph/witness case, one can clearly see that the Royal Norwegian MoD has an interest in the UFO phenomenon and take the subject seriously.

NOTE: An object which was similar to the object photographed by Marit Semeleng – was allegedly seen in Maine, U.S.A., in 1982.

See the following UFO Casebook article (and drawing in the UFO Magazine, Issue # 342, January 19, 2009): “Reader Recounts 1982 Encounter in Maine”:

http://www.ufocasebook.com/2008c/1982eliotmaine.html

Wikipedia article: “Norwegian Armed Forces”:

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

Wikipedia article: “Valdres”:

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

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I first presented this blog post on 18 January 2009.

UFO photographed over the Valdres Mountains, Norway,

autumn 1983 (Marit Semeleng photo/youtube.com image)

View over Begnadalen from Lærskogen, with the large woodland ranging all over to Randsfjorden on the left and Hedalsfjella in the right background [Valdres Mountains, Norway].

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NASA Video: “UFO Video Freeze-frames (NASA): The ISS Passes UFO”

Source: TVUFOFootage (YouTube channel)

Video text:

“A TV documentary film showed a short NASA video – which shows the International Space Station passing a UFO.

These four video freeze-frames show that the ISS passes very close to the unknown object. Just compare freeze-frames No. 1 and 4. See how much larger the UFO looks in No. 1 than in No. 4. This is proof that the UFO is very close to the ISS.

The documentary was shown on the German documentary film TV channel, N24.

A shorter version of this UFO footage (see the UFODI video) was shown on a U.S. TV channel (I believe it was CNN, but I could be wrong). See how fast the video cuts back to the TV studio after the UFO has entered the screen!

‘UFODI: NASA Show Huge UFO On National TV 2014!’:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKOLOO9qym0

The NASA video was possibly recorded in 2014.”

Wikipedia article: “NASA”:

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2Y9vUIsB-c

(NASA/N24/youtube.com image)

U.S. Government UFO Document: “SUBJ: INCIDENT REPORT: UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS”

5 March 1988

(U.S. Coast Guard, Washington, D.C.)

Source: NICAP.org

The whole document (not written in U.S. Department of Defense document format) (text provided by NICAP.org):

“COG: INFO

COPIES CPC DCS DGP DPA B M O OLE OSR 9 FP D9AW D9 AW DE ISN-FP021 P 051405Z MAR 88

FM COGARD STA FAIRPORT OH//CO//

TO AW/COMCOGARDGRU DETROIT MI//OPS// INFO D9/CCGDNINE CLEVELAND OH//OSR// BT UNCLAS //N16144//

SUBJ: INCIDENT REPORT: UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS

1. UNIDENTIFIABLE FLYING OBJECTS 1/4 MILE EAST OF CEI POWER PLANT.

2. AT 2035 [4 March 1988] LCL THIS STATION RCVD A CALL FROM [Name deleted] RPTNG A LARGE OBJECT HOVERING OVER THE LAKE AND APPARENTLY ON A SLOW DECENT. THE OBJECT HAD A WHITE LIGHT AND WAS APPROX. 1/4 MILE UP. [Deleted] WAS UNABLE TO DETERMINE HOW FAR OUT IT WAS. THIS UNIT SENT 2 CREWMEMBERS TO INVESTIGATE. BEFORE THEY ARRIVED O/S, WE RCVD 2 MORE CALLS RPTNG THAT THE OBJECT HAD APPARENTLY DISPERSED 3-5 SMALLER FLYING OBJECTS THAT WERE ZIPPING AROUND RATHER QUICKLY. THESE OBJECTS HAD RED, GREEN, WHITE AND YELLOW LIGHTS ON THEM THAT STROBED INTERMITTENTLY. THEY ALSO HAD THE ABILITY TO STOP AND HOVER IN MID-FLIGHT. WHEN MOBILE 02 GO O/S, THEY RPTD THE SAME ACTIVITY. THEY WATCHED THE OBJECTS FOR APPROX. 1 HOUR BEFORE RPTNG THAT THE LARGE OBJECT WAS ALMOST ON THE ICE. THEY RPTD THAT THE ICE WAS CRACKING AND MOVING ABNORMAL AMOUNTS AS THE OBJECT CAME CLOSER TO IT. THE ICE WAS RUMBLING AND THE OBJECT LIT MULTI-COLOR LIGHTS AT EACH END AS IT APPARENTLY LANDED. THE LIGHTS ON IT WENT OUT MOMENTARILY AND THEN CAME ON AGAIN. THEY WENT OUT AGAIN AND THE RUMBLING STOPPED AND THE ICE STOPPED MOVING. THE SMALLER OBJECTS BEGAN HOVERING IN THE AREA WHERE THE LARGE OBJECT LANDED AND AFTER A FEW MINUTES THEY BEGAN FLYING AROUND AGAIN. MOBILE 02 RPTD THAT THEY APPEARED TO BE SCOUTING THE AREA. MOBILE 02 RPTD THAT 1 OBJECT WAS MOVING TOWARD THEM AT A HIGH SPEED AND LOW TO THE ICE. MOBILE 02 BACKED DOWN THE HILL THEY HAD BEEN ON AND WHEN THEY WENT BACK TO THE HILL, THE OBJECT WAS GONE. THEY RPTD THAT THE OBJECTS COULD NOT BE SEEN IF THEY TURNED OFF THERE LIGHTS. ONE OF THE SMALL OBJECTS TURNED ON A SPOTLIGHT WHERE THE LARGE OBJECT HAD BEEN BUT MOBILE 02 COULD NOT SEE ANYTHING, AND THEN THE OBJECT SEEMED TO DISAPPEAR. ANOTHER OBJECT APPROACHED MOBILE 02 APPROX. 500 YDS. OFFSHORE ABOUT 20 FT. ABOVE THE ICE, AND IT BEGAN MOVING CLOSER AS MOBILE 02 BEGAN FLASHING ITS HEADLIGHTS, THEN IT MOVED OFF TO THE WEST.

3. THE CREWMEMBERS WERE UNABLE TO IDENTIFY ANY OF THE OBJECTS USING BINOCULARS AND AFTER CONTACTING LOCAL POLICE AND AIRPORTS, THIS UNIT WAS UNABLE TO IDENTIFY THE OBJECTS, AND RECALLED MOBILE 02.BTTOR-03:05:14:44”

http://www.nicap.org/docs/880304eastlake_docs.pdf

http://www.nicap.org/reports/880304eastlake_docs.htm

Wikipedia article: “United States Coast Guard”:

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

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UFO Case Directory (Close Encounters): “Eastlake Close Encounter March 4, 1988 Eastlake, Ohio”

(NICAP.org)

“Fran Ridge:

March 4, 1988; Eastlake, Ohio

8:35 p.m. local. This is a very interesting close encounter and one of FUFOR’s top cases. And, this one may have a nuclear connection. A huge, gunmetal gray, football-shaped object that was rocking back and forth was first observed by five people. Then the object began moving; swinging one end toward the shore and descending. The witnesses became frightened, ran back to their car and fled. When they got home, the object was still visible from a window that faced the lake. The object moved out over the ice and continued to descend, with red and blue lights now flashing in sequence along its lower edge. At one point triangular objects darted around the parent craft, then headed east toward the Perry nuclear power plant. One witness called the Eastlake police to report a UFO, and was finally referred to the Coast Guard. Coast Guard personnel saw the object and reported that it appeared to be landing on the lake.”

NICAP.org presents a U.S. government (U.S. Coast Guard) document that pertains to the case.

http://www.nicap.org/880304eastlake_dir.htm

Wikipedia article: “United States Coast Guard”:

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

Wikipedia article: “Perry Nuclear Generating Station”:

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

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Perry [Nuclear Generating Station] as seen from Headlands Beach

State Park, Ohio (text by Wikipedia) (wikimedia.org)

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Perry Nuclear Generating Station, North Perry, Ohio

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