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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UFO News Article: “Air Command Admits It Is Involved In Flying Discs”

2 August 1952

(The Sheboygan Press, Wisconsin)

Source: NICAP.org

The whole article:

“The nerve center of the nation’s air defense admits today to being involved in the flying saucer situation.

       

Headquarters of the Air Force Air Defense Command [Air Defense Command, later Aerospace Defense Command] located at Ent Air Force Base here, reported that has been a flurry of reports of saucers and other unidentified objects for the past two weeks.

       

And so seriously are the reports viewed that fast interceptor planes are kept on the ready to jet aloft to find out what goes on — if possible.

       

‘We’ve really been scrambling,’ a spokesman said. ‘These planes are kept loaded and ready to go and their pilots are never more than a few feet away. They're in the air within seconds of a report that seems definite enough.’

       

The thing is not geared up just for saucers though. The system is the same as that worked out to meet any enemy attack.

       

Furthermore, the ADC isn’t saying what might have been found. The results of the scrambles aren’t for it to announce. Findings are turned over to technical experts at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, O.

       

The ADC, which commands and coordinates the three regional Air defense commands in New York, Missouri and California, did say that its radar equipment has been picking up a lot of unexplained blips.”

My comment:
Ent Air Force Base later became the location of the United States Olympic Training Center.

http://www.nicap.org/articles/520802_sheboyganclip.htm

Wikipedia article: “Aerospace Defense Command”:

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

Wikipedia article: “Ent Air Force Base”:

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Air Defense Command map (1966) shows the ADC’s Air Divisions

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UFO News Article: “ ‘Saucers’ Stir Air Defenses”

2 August 1952

(The Tuscaloosa News, Tuscaloosa-Northport, Alabama)

This AP article is a longer version than the article (“Disk Reports Keep Defense Center Busy”) I reported about on 10 April 2016.

Quote from the article:

“ ‘For the past two weeks,’ the ADC reported, ‘Headquarters has received a number of reports of unidentified airborne objects in its area through the normal detection channels of the ADC.’

Meantime the ‘flying saucers’ have popped up in Korea and Japan.

A Canadian destroyer recently reported sighting two such objects and recorded them on its radar, it was learned in Seoul today.

A Navy report said 40 officers and crew members of the destroyer Crusader saw the ‘saucers’ the night of July 10, all had the familiar qualities of the puzzling flying discs.

A second report a day or two later dismissed the radar find as the planet Jupiter. One officer commented, however: ‘Jupiter doesn’t come in pairs and it is several million miles out of range of our radar.’ ”

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Wikipedia article: “HMCS Crusader (R20)”:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMCS_Crusader_(R20)

HMCS Crusader, Royal Canadian Navy (wikimedia.org)

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UFO Case Directory (SIGHTINGS FROM AIRCRAFT): “ADC Personnel In Cessna See Silver Object July 22, 1952 Nr. Peterson Field, Colorado”

(NICAP.org)

The whole UFO case report:

“Brad Sparks:

July 22, 1952. 12 miles E of Peterson Field, Colo. 
[Colorado Springs] (BBU)

6:45 p.m. USAF ADC personnel in Cessna 140 and the pilot saw a round silver object disappear into clouds. (Project 1947) Unidentified object reported by M/Sgt Bruce. H. McCormick and A/2C Bobby G. Moore.”

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

http://www.nicap.org/casework/2011indexes/2011july/520722petersonfld_dir.htm

Wikipedia article: “Peterson Air Force Base”:

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

Quote from the Wikipedia article:

“Peterson Air Force Base is a U.S. Air Force Base that shares an airfield with the adjacent Colorado Springs Municipal Airport, home to the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), the Air Force Space Command headquarters, and United States Northern Command (USNORTHCOM) headquarters. Developed as a World War II air support base for Camp Carson, the facility conducted Army Air Forces training and supported Cold War air defense centers at the nearby Ent Air Force Base, Chidlaw Building, and Cheyenne Mountain Complex. The base has been the location of the Air Force Space Command headquarters since 1987 and has had NORAD/NORTHCOM command center operations since the 2006 Cheyenne Mountain Realignment placed the nearby Cheyenne Mountain Complex centers on standby.”

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UFO news article:

“Disk Reports Keep Defense Center Busy”

2 August 1952

(Spokane Daily Chronicle, Washington)

The article reports on the UFO investigation work of the Air Defense Command (headquartered at Ent Air Force Base, Colorado Springs, Colorado):

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Wikipedia article: “Aerospace Defense Command”:

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

Quote from the Wikipedia article:

“Aerospace Defense Command was a major command of the United States Air Forces, responsible for continental air defence. It was activated in 1968 and disbanded in 1980. Its predecessor, Air Defense Command, was established in 1946, briefly inactivated in 1950, reactivated in 1951, and then redesignated Aerospace rather than Air in 1968. Its mission was to provide air defense of the Continental United States (CONUS). It directly controlled all active measures, and was tasked to coordinate all passive means of air defense.”

Wikipedia article: “Ent Air Force Base”:

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The logo of Air Defense Command (ADC)
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Air Defense Command map (1966) shows the ADC’s Air Divisions
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UFO News Article: “Military Undergoes Special Alert”

18 April 1952

(Associated Press (New York City, New York) article)

Source: theufochronicles.com

The whole article:

“All agencies of the nation’s military establishment were placed on special readiness yesterday because of a ‘pattern of unknowns [UFOs] which appeared potentially dangerous,’ the Air Defense command said today.

In a statement issued through the Eastern Defense Command headquarters at Stewart Field, the Air Defense Command said: ‘Our detection system developed a pattern of unknowns in both the Northeast and Northwest which apepared [sic] [appeared] potentially dangerous. We alerted all agencies of the national military establishment until the unknowns were identified, after which the period of special readiness was called off.

‘It would be an error to say that such an alert is not unusual. However, it is the function that the Air Defense Command was organized to perform.

The Air Defense Command declined to elaborate upon its statement or the situation which caused the ‘period’ of special readiness.’ ”

https://www.theufochronicles.com/2019/04/ufos-deemed-potentially-dangerous-spur-national-alert.html

Wikipedia article: “Aerospace Defense Command”:

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

Quote from the Wikipedia article:

“Aerospace Defense Command was a major command of the United States Air Forces, responsible for continental air defence. It was activated in 1968 and disbanded in 1980. Its predecessor, Air Defense Command, was established in 1946, briefly inactivated in 1950, reactivated in 1951, and then redesignated Aerospace rather than Air in 1968. Its mission was to provide air defense of the Continental United States (CONUS). It directly controlled all active measures, and was tasked to coordinate all passive means of air defense.”

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UFO Case Directory (RADCAT): “Gun Camera R/V Case Aug. 1, 1952 Bellefontaine, Ohio”

(NICAP.org)

The whole UFO case report:

“Francis Ridge:

This report is case #20, on the official clearance list. of 41 formerly classified Air Technical Intelligence UFO reports cleared for Maj. Donald E. Keyhoe by Albert M. Chop, Air Force Press Desk. In Donald Keyhoe’s book, ‘Flying Saucers From Outer Space’, the account on page 107 mentions that at 10:51 a.m. (Ohio time), August 1, 1952, radarmen at a GCI post had spotted a fast-moving UFO. The Intelligence report included the ATIC analysis. Later I found an unclassified copy. And thanks to William Wise (Project Blue Book Archive) and Dan Wilson (BB Archive Researcher), we have further documentation. This case illustrates the accuracy of some of the earlier books, and also shows that the Air Force actually listed this case as an Unknown. Some strange things were going on in the region that day. See my report below.

Brad Sparks:

Aug. 1, 1952; Nr. Troy [radar at Bellefontaine], Ohio (BBU)

10:51-11:13 a.m. (EST). USAF ADC radar site 664th AC&W Sq at Bellefontaine atop Campbell Hill at 1549 ft elevation (40°22'20" N, 83°43'10" W). tracked target 20 miles NNW of Wright-Patterson AFB, Dayton, Ohio, traveling 400-450 knots (500 mph) on a heading of 240° about WSW and vectored 2 F-86's piloted by Major James B. Smith and Lt. Donald J. Hemer, located 10 miles SW of the UFO. Jets made visual contact in 4 mins at 10:55, climbed to 48,000 ft, fell off, climbed again to 48,000 ft and Smith got a weak return on his radar gun sight, shot gun camera film of the 24-40 ft white round object or silver-colored sphere or disc estimated at 60,000-70,000 ft and filmed by gun camera a white round object [which then took off at high speed ?]. F-86s broke off intercept at about 11:05 or 11:13 a.m., apparently about 100 miles WSW of Dayton. Film reportedly shows UFO image in the upper right of the frames with noticeable motion to the lower left. 22 mins. (BB Rpt 8; cf. Ruppelt pp. 174-6; Keyhoe 1953 p. 107)”

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Hovering object scanned by radar and seen by ground watchers, caught on film by a climbing jet pilot. These unretouched 35 mm  gun - camera movie frames, released to TRUE by the Air Force, were taken at 30,000 feet, near Wright Field, at 11 a.m. on August 1, 1952. (text by nicap.org) (nicap.org image)

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UFO Case Directory: “Alaskan Radar Case January 22, 1952 Nenana, Alaska”

(NICAP.org)

The whole UFO case report:

“Francis Ridge:

Jan. 22, 1952; Nenana, Alaska

This was a an incident involving both ground and airborne radar. Three F-94’s were scrambled to intercept the radar target. The UFO maneuvered and radar indicated it streaked away to the west. The object was tracked at 23,000 feet and clocked at 1500 mph. At first the Air Force claimed this was a weather target. But when you read the documents below you can see they never explained this incident.

Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt:

A month or two after we’d received the report, I was out in Colorado Springs at Air Defense Command Headquarters. I was eating lunch in the officers’ club when I saw an officer from the radar operations section at ADC. He asked me to stop by his office when I had a spare minute, and I said that I would. He said that it was important.”

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

http://www.nicap.org/520122nenana_dir.htm

Wikipedia article: “Clear Air Force Station”:

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

Quote from the Wikipedia article:

“Clear Air Force Station (‘Clear’ colloq.) is a United States Air Force Station radar station for detecting incoming ICBMs and submarine-launched ballistic missiles[3] to NORAD’s command center and to provide Space Surveillance data to Air Force Space Command’s Space Control Center (SCC). Clear’s AN/FPS-123 Upgraded Early Warning Radar is part of the Solid State Phased Array Radar System (SSPARS) which also includes those at Beale AFB, Cape Cod AFS, RAF Fylingdales and Thule Site J. The ‘historic property’ was one of the Alaska World War II Army Airfields and later a Cold War BMEWS site providing NORAD data to Colorado’s BMEWS Central Computer and Display Facility (CC&DF).

In addition to the ‘original camp area’ with buildings still in use today,[4] areas of the station include the airfield (ICAO: PACL), the ‘SSPARS Site’[5] the technical site (Utilador,[6] BMEWS reflectors, support buildings, power plant), and the composite site (two permanent dormitories, a mess hall, recreation area, and administrative area).[citation needed] In addition to the Air National Guard unit, Clear has active duty USAF, Royal Canadian Air Force, civilian, and contractor personnel.”

Clear Air Force Station is located in Nenana, Alaska.

News article:

“Inside the Gates: Alaska’s missile defense program”

16 August 2017

(KTVA, Anchorage, Alaska)

http://www.ktva.com/story/36120583/inside-the-gates-alaskas-missile-defense-program

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Clear Air Force Station, Alaska, with Phased Array Radar System

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