UFO Mailing List Post: “Fort Monmouth Incident – UFO Updates Rebuttal”

By Brad Sparks, 26 April 2001

(UFO UpDates, Toronto, Canada)

Source: NICAP.org

Quote from the mailing list post:

“Subject: Re: Ft. Monmouth Revisited

I am puzzled that you (Manuel Borraz) recognize the fact right here at the outset that there were _TWO_ balloons not one, launched together at the same time from the same location (which you fail to mention), but there was only _ONE_ UFO, yet you never mention the two Balloons again?  In a few places you mention ‘balloons’ plural vaguely but in several Places you misleadingly talk about ‘the balloon’ and ‘a balloon.’ Is there any reason why you never mention two balloons again?  I am impelled to point this out each time below because this omission is fatal to your analysis.

How did you know there were two balloons launched?  Why didn’t you mention that they were not just vaguely ‘launched in the area’ as if_ unrelated to each other and in different locations, but launched at the exact same time at the exact same location?  Both balloons were tracked by radar together until they exploded at 104,000 feet some 79 minutes later, at an average ascent rate of about 1,300 ft/min, which will be very important for the analysis below.

Here are some strong arguments against the weather balloon theory in the material at the NICAP website which you do not mention had been made by the T-33 pilot Lt Wilbert S. Rogers literally on Day One of the public reporting back in 1951. Fifty years later we should recognize that this faulty theory has been challenged right from the outset by the key witnesses.

‘This couldn’t have been a balloon,’ Rogers said, ‘because it was descending and no balloon goes that fast.’

“Said Rogers:

“ ‘This couldn’t have been a balloon. It was describing a descending arc as we got within 8,000 feet of it. And it was going at twice our maximum speed. No balloon flies that fast. Why, we couldn’t have caught it in a World’s record F-86 Saber jet.’ ”

(INS, Sept 12, 1951: http://www.nicap.org/fmS10p3.htm )”

This UFO incident occurred over Sandy Hook, New Jersey,

on 10 September 1951.

http://www.nicap.org/reports/monmouthsparks2.htm

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Aerial view of Sandy Hook, New Jersey (wikimedia.org)
(wikimedia.org photo)

Map of New Jersey (lib.utexas.edu)

(lib.utexas.edu image)

UFO Case Directory: “Category 11, SIGHTINGS FROM AIRCRAFT The Sandy Hook / T-33 Incident Sept. 10, 1951 Sandy Hook, New Jersey”

(NICAP.org)

The whole UFO case report:

“Brad Sparks:

11:35-11:37 a.m. (EDT) USAF pilots Lt. Wilbert S. Rogers and Major Ezra S. Ballard flying in a T-33 at 20,000 ft from Dover AFB, Delaware, to Mitchel AFB, New York, on a NNE course at 450 mph saw a silvery metallic discus-shaped 30-50 ft object to their 11 o’clock position below their altitude viewed against the Sandy Point area and silhouetted against the ground. Rogers immediately turned left and descended to intercept the object which then banked, revealing its flat round profile, no appendages, no trail, and curved in more tightly on the turn than the T-33, covering an estimated 30-50 n. mi. in 2 minutes (about 1,000-1,500 mph), and seen projected against the ground near Red Bank and Freehold, New Jersey, as the T-33 descended to 17,000 ft, accelerated to 550 mph and covering about 120° of its 360° turn during the sighting. The object passed within about 8,000 ft distance of the T-33, descending from about 12,000 to 5,000 ft and headed at high speed out to sea near Pt. Pleasant at about 120° heading until disappearance.

Fran Ridge:

This case caused a major stir at the Pentagon. Radar case at Fort Monmouth preceded this incident. Before our our research efforts (T-33 pilot reports to the media) all we had was the GRUDGE Report and this final statement by Capt. Ruppelt: ‘The UFO that the student radar operator had assumed to be traveling at a terrific speed because he couldn’t lock on to it turned out to be a 400-mile-an-hour conventional airplane. He had just gotten fouled up on his procedures for putting the radar set on automatic tracking. The sighting by the two officers in the T-33 jet fell apart when Metscher showed how they’d seen a balloon.’ Brad Sparks analysis proves that the T-33 was NOT chasing a balloon. (See below).”

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

http://www.nicap.org/510910sandyhook_dir.htm

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Aerial view of Sandy Hook, New Jersey (wikimedia.org)

(wikimedia.org photo)

Map of New Jersey (lib.utexas.edu)

(lib.utexas.edu image)