UFO News Article: “ ‘Strange Object’ Sighted in Skies by Pilots – Seen Over Big Delta Wednesday”

12 December 1952

(Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Alaska)

Source: Newspapers.com

The whole article:

“Three airline pilots reportedly disclosed yesterday they sighted a mysterious unidentified object ‘that looked like a landing light’ traveling through the air at ‘a very high rate of speed’ Wednesday evening [10 December 1952] in the vicinity of Big Delta.

Reliable news sources say the object was reported as flying at an estimated altitude of 15,000 feet, some 6,000 feet above the passenger plane.

Called Control

The crew, upon sighting the object, immediately contacted air defense control by radio and reported the strange light. Yesterday afternoon the pilots were taken to Ladd field for a two-and-a-half hour interrogation by high officials there.

The pilots, following a request by the military, made absolutely no comment on the incident and the air force was unwilling to make a public statement.

Denies Report

One news source said the mysterious flying object was picked up by a Ladd field radar installation, but the base public information office denied the report with the terse release: ‘We have had no reports of any radar pickup like that.’

The air force said information gathered from the airline pilots was forwarded to high command for further evaluation. All future press releases will come from there, they added.”

My comment: Here – we once again have U.S. military officials who admit that they sent a UFO report to “high command.” It is not the first time we have seen this.

NOTE: A U.S. Air Force pilot sighted a UFO (Project Blue Book

case) over Ladd Air Force Base [Ladd Army Airfield] on
8 December 1952. Radar also showed the UFO (see link below).

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/25899377/ufo_1952/

Wikipedia article: “Big Delta, Alaska”:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Delta,_Alaska

Wikipedia article: “Ladd Army Airfield”:

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

Quote from the Wikipedia article:

“Ladd Army Airfield (IATA: FBK, ICAO: PAFB, FAA LID: FBK) is the military airfield located at Fort Jonathan Wainwright, located in Fairbanks, Alaska. It was originally called Fairbanks Air Base, but was renamed Ladd Field on 1 December 1939,[4] in honor of Major Arthur K. Ladd, a pilot in the U.S. Army Air Corps who died in a plane crash near Dale, South Carolina on 13 December 1935.[5][6]

History

Origins

The major use of Ladd Field was primarily cold-weather testing of aircraft and equipment. Only Interior Alaska offered the consistently cold temperatures needed. However, the Attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941 forced the temporary halt on testing at Ladd since the military needed all aircraft for the defense of Alaska.

World War II

When the Air Force was made a separate branch in 1947 the name was changed to Ladd Air Force Base. For many years, it would be one of two Air Force bases in the Fairbanks area.

Cold War

From the late 1940s into the 1950s, Ladd AFB served as the northern hub for Air Force activities in Alaska. As headquarters first of the Northern Sector of the Alaskan Air Command and later of the 11th Air Division, Ladd was centrally involved in the Cold War missions of the Alaskan Command and in the transient missions of other military units, including the Strategic Air Command (SAC).

Ladd was not exclusively an Air Force site. The Army was also present to provide antiaircraft (AAA) support and base defense. At Ladd, Cold War activities fell mainly into three time periods: an early phase from 1946–1950; a buildup and support hub phase from 1950–1957; and a transfer phase from 1958–1961, when the installation was turned over to the Army.

During 1946-1950, personnel from Ladd laid some of the groundwork of the early Cold War with strategic reconnaissance and Arctic research projects. Among other missions, they made initial assessments of the Soviet presence in the Arctic; more fully developed the practice of polar navigation; extended Arctic topography; tested cold weather equipment, clothing, and human performance, as well as maintained the area air defenses of the region.

In 1948, as Cold War tensions heightened, the Army's 2nd Infantry sent ground defense soldiers to Ladd.

From the onset of the Korean War in 1950 and continuing through 1957, Ladd saw intense use. It became a busy operations and logistics center with significantly expanded facilities and personnel strength.

As the northern region headquarters of the 11th Air Division, the base was the logistical support center for Alaska's new defense projects. Ladd supported Aircraft Control & Warning (AC&W) sites and forward operating bases such as Galena, Alaska, the northwestern segments of the Distant Early Warning Line (DEW Line), and the White Alice communications network (WACS).”

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Aerial view of Big Delta region [Alaska] (text by Wikipedia)

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UFO Case Directory (RADCAT): “Category 9, RADAR George AFB / Apple Valley, CA Radar Case (BBU 1176) May 1, 1952 George AFB, California”

Updated: 23 February 2016

(NICAP.org)

The whole UFO case report:

“Fran Ridge:

The principle witness to the phenomena had been a Lt. Colonel who was Wing Director of Personnel of the 146th Fighter-Bomber Wing headquartered at George Field so it was no wonder the case sparked an immediate reaction by the High Command. This is apparently #1 on Major Dewey Fournet’s ‘motions study’ UFOs cases as presented to the Robertson Panel in January of 1953, whereby he deduced that UFOs were guided by intelligence and the flight characteristics indicated that the intelligence was beyond ‘us’. This is a Project Blue Book unknown and later information (15 Feb 2006) seems to indicate that this might classify as a radar/visual case. (see Lt. Col. link below)

Brad Sparks:

May 1, 1952; George AFB, California (BBU 1176)

10:50 am. An Air Force officer and a group of airmen in a separate location observed a formation of five white disc-shaped objects, three in front and two behind. The trailing objects darted around in zig-zag motions. Suddenly the objects switched to a tight V-formation, made an almost 90-degree turn and sped away over the mountains. The five objects were sighted at George AFB and from a golf course 4 miles away. Observer: S/Sgt David Darbyrsira 146th Air Police Squadron sighted the 5 objects at at George AFB, at 1050 hours PDT, about one hour after a cloud from an atom blast was sighted in the direction of Las Vegas.”

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

http://www.nicap.org/520501george_dir.htm

Wikipedia article: “George Air Force Base”:

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

Quote from the Wikipedia article:

“George Air Force Base was a United States Air Force base located within the city limits, 8 miles northwest, of central Victorville, California, about 75 miles northeast of Los Angeles, California.

George AFB was closed pursuant to a decision by the 1988 Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) Commission at the end of the Cold War. It is now the site of the Southern California Logistics Airport.

Established by the United States Army Air Corps as an Advanced Flying School in June 1941, it was closed at the end of World War II. It was again activated as a training base by the United States Air Force with the outbreak of the Korean War in November 1950. It remained a training base throughout the Cold War and in the immediate post-Cold War period, primarily for the Tactical Air Command (TAC) and later the Air Combat Command (ACC), training USAF, NATO and other Allied pilots and weapon systems officers in front-line fighter aircraft until being closed in 1993.

Since 2009, the California Air National Guard’s 196th Reconnaissance Squadron (96 RS) has operated an MQ-1 Predator Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) training facility at the Southern California Logistics Airport.[2]”

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UFO News Article: “Where did all the UFOs go?...”

19 March 2019

(The Kenmare News, North Dakota)

The article reports on Robert L. Hastings’ documentary film, UFOs and Nukes: The Secret Link Revealed and the UFO incidents that occurred at Strategic Air Command (SAC) bases in the United States and military bases in the Soviet Union during the Cold War.

The bases that are mentioned in the article are F. E. Warren (located outside Cheyenne, Wyoming), Grand Forks (North Dakota), Malmstrom (Great Falls, Montana) and Minot (North Dakota) Air Force Bases.

Quote from the article:

“And since North Dakota had silos from Cavalier to the Montana line, and south to Cooperstown and Killdeer, it’s no wonder so many people reported UFOs, especially during the 1960s.

Three years ago a number of UFO sightings that had been classified, were placed into the public domain. Almost all of them were sightings that were directly related to an Air Force Base.

The same is true with these more recent Freedom of Information Act requests.”

http://www.kenmarend.com/kenmare-news/upside-down-under/where-did-all-the-ufos-go/

Wikipedia article: “Strategic Air Command”:

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

The Strategic Air Command (SAC) was deactivated in 1992.

Wikipedia article: “Air Force Global Strike Command”:

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

Wikipedia article: “United States Strategic Command”:

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

Wikipedia article: “Cold War”:

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

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Map of Strategic Air Command (SAC)/

STRATCOM Military Bases, U.S.A. 

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UFO Case Directory (RADCAT): “Radar/Visual With Two Radars Feb. 4, 1954 Carswell AFB, Fort Worth, Texas”

(NICAP.org)

The whole UFO case report:

“Brad Sparks:

Feb. 4, 1954; Carswell AFB, Ft. Worth, Texas (BBU)

11 p.m. (Shough)

Dan Wilson:

February 4, 1954; Carswell AFB, Ft. Worth, Texas

At 11:00 p.m. local time, an object was detected by the Carswell AFB Ground Control Approach (GCA) radar, an AN/CPN-4 radar, at a distance of 13 to 15 miles to the SW and was heading directly toward the base. Carswell Weather reported in and said they had the object sighted on radar at approx. same time and location. The object remained on a straight course and the GCA operator notified the Control Tower. Control Tower personnel sighted the object as it moved directly over the Control Tower at an estimated speed of 240 - 250 mph. The object was observed for approximately 6 minutes with standard binoculars during entire observation. The object was at an altitude of approximately 4,000 feet confirmed by GCA, according to the Control Tower operator.  The object was described as larger than a B-36, having a long fuselage, elliptical wings and stabilizer, gray in color, and no visible means of propulsion or exhaust. Nor did the object leave any trail and no sound was heard. The object passed out of sight to the NW. At 11:29 p.m., two targets were picked up on the Carswell GCA radar at 17 miles SW of Carswell. The targets were flying formation at an estimated 5,000 feet altitude at a speed of 200 mph. These two targets merged into one target and when 12 miles from Carswell they separated again and assumed a southerly heading. At approximately 14 miles from the base the target to the rear suddenly reversed its course, flew for two miles, then reversed course again and gradually overtook the lead target. Both targets departed [the] area flying in formation to the SSE. The INVESTIGATION OF UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS report states that the reversal of course was for about two miles or 3.3 seconds. (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/540204carswell_dir.htm

Wikipedia article: “Carswell Air Force Base”:

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

Quote from the Wikipedia article:

“Carswell Air Force Base is a former United States Air Force (USAF) base, located northwest of Fort Worth, Texas. For most of its operational lifetime, the base’s mission was to train and support heavy strategic bombing groups and wings.

Carswell was a major Strategic Air Command (SAC) base during the Cold War. It was the headquarters of several SAC intercontinental bombardment wings, equipped with the latest heavy bombers from B-29 Superfortresses; B-36 Peacemakers and B-52 Stratofortresses. The west side of the airfield was home to Air Force Plant 4, a 602-acre (2.44 km2) industrial complex occupied over the decades by Convair, General Dynamics, and now by Lockheed Martin. The bulk of the Air Force Convair B-36, B-58 Hustler, F-111 Aardvark, EF-111 Raven and F-16 Fighting Falcon fleets were built there.

With the end of the Cold War, and the subsequent downsizing of the American military, the 1991 Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) Commission recommended that Carswell AFB be closed by 1994. Today, the facility is known as Naval Air Station Fort Worth Joint Reserve Base. It retains an Air Force Reserve presence as well as a Navy Reserve, Marine Corps Reserve and Air National Guard flying units where were formerly located at Naval Air Station Dallas.”

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Carswell Air Force Base, located north west of Fort Worth, Texas
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Satellite photo of Fort Worth, Texas (tageo.com)

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UFO News Article: “BRITAIN'S X-FILES: UFO files reveal Cold War spy plane crew’s horror as mysterious craft ‘covered in 20 flashing lights’ closed in at 35,000ft”

30 June 2017

(The Sun, London, UK)

The UFO incident occurred over the Mediterranean Sea on 
19 October 1982, according to the UK Ministry of Defence.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/3919991/ufo-files-reveal-cold-war-spy-plane-crews-horror-as-ufo-covered-in-20-flashing-lights-closed-in-at-35000ft/

Map of the Mediterranean Basin (lib.utexas.edu)

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UFO Radio Interview:
Richard M. Dolan: Ufology in the Cold War Era,
23 August 2009 (Coast to Coast AM)

In this interview hosted by George Knapp, Dolan lays out evidences that show that the U.S. government takes the UFO issue very seriously:

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Coast+to+Coast+AM+-+23+August+2009+-+Ufology+in+the+Cold+War+Era+SetYouFreee (12 parts)

Dolan has now written two UFO books that deal with the machinations within the U.S. government pertaining to the UFO phenomenon. The books titled, “UFOs and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-Up, 1941-1973” and “UFOs and the National Security State: The Cover-Up Exposed, 1973-1991” are parts of a trilogy.

Richard M. Dolan Website:

http://keyholepublishing.com/

Richard M. Dolan'
U.S. Historian, UFO Author,
Lecturer & Researcher

Google Website Searches: Focus On UFO Incidents At/Near Strategic Air Command (SAC) Bases

Website: National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP.org):

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NICAP.org article:

“Alphabetical List and Histories of All Nuclear SAC Bases by State or Country”

Text by NICAP.org:

“SAC was established on March 21, 1946 as one of three commands of the US Army Air Forces. Initially under General George Kenny at Bolling Field, Washington, D.C., SAC headquarters settled at Offutt AFB near Omaha, Nebraska under the command of General Curtis LeMay In October of 1948. The new separate Air Force was born September 18, 1947. Part of the SAC Mission certainly was to provide “long range offensive operations in any part of the world” in the form of a nuclear reach as a deterrent to future aggression.

The Alphabetical Review is a list of bases, air stations, and airports that the United States Air Force has occupied since 1947. Many bases have had name changes, so each separate name has been listed.

AB - Air Base, AS - Air Station, AFB - Air Force Base, AFS – Air Force Station, (M/I)AP - (Municipal/International) Airport, RAF - Royal Air Force Station/Base”

https://www.nicap.org/ncp/sac.htm

Wikipedia article: “Strategic Air Command”:

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

Quote from the above Wikipedia article:

“Strategic Air Command (SAC) was both a United States Department of Defense (DoD) Specified Command and a United States Air Force (USAF) Major Command (MAJCOM), responsible for Cold War command and control of two of the three components of the U.S. military's strategic nuclear strike forces, the so-called ‘nuclear triad,’ with SAC having control of land-based strategic bomber aircraft and intercontinental ballistic missiles or ICBMs (the third leg of the triad being submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBM) of the U.S. Navy).

SAC also operated all strategic reconnaissance aircraft, all strategic airborne command post aircraft, and all USAF aerial refueling aircraft, to include those in the Air Force Reserve (AFRES) and Air National Guard (ANG).

However, SAC did not operate the KB-50, WB-50 and WB-47 weather reconnaissance aircraft operated through the mid and late 1960s by the Air Weather Service, nor did SAC operate the HC-130 or MC-130 operations aircraft capable of aerial refueling helicopters that were assigned to Tactical Air Command (TAC), then Military Airlift Command (MAC), and from 1990 onward, those MC-130 aircraft operated by the Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC), or any AFRES (now Air Force Reserve Command (AFRC)) or ANG tactical aerial refueling aircraft (e.g., HC-130, MC-130) operationally gained by TAC, MAC or AFSOC.

SAC primarily consisted of the Second Air Force (2AF), Eighth Air Force (8AF) and the Fifteenth Air Force (15AF), while SAC headquarters (HQ SAC) included Directorates for Operations & Plans, Intelligence, Command & Control, Maintenance, Training, Communications, and Personnel. At a lower echelon, SAC headquarters divisions included Aircraft Engineering, Missile Concept,[1] and Strategic Communications.

In 1992, as part of an overall post-Cold War reorganization of the U.S. Air Force, SAC was disestablished as both a Specified Command and as a MAJCOM, and its personnel and equipment redistributed among the Air Combat Command (ACC), Air Mobility Command (AMC), Pacific Air Forces (PACAF), United States Air Forces in Europe (USAFE), and Air Education and Training Command (AETC), while SAC's central headquarters complex at Offutt AFB, Nebraska was concurrently transferred to the newly created United States Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM), which was established as a joint Unified Combatant Command to replace SAC's Specified Command role.

In 2009, SAC's previous USAF MAJCOM role was reactivated and redesignated as the Air Force Global Strike Command (AFGSC), with AFGSC eventually acquiring claimancy and control of all USAF bomber aircraft and the USAF strategic ICBM force.[2]”

Wikipedia article: “Offutt Air Force Base”:

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

Quote from the Wikipedia article:

“Offutt Air Force Base /ˈʌfæt/ (IATA: OFF, ICAO: KOFF, FAA LID: OFF) is a U.S. Air Force base near Omaha, and lies adjacent to Bellevue in Sarpy County, Nebraska. It is the headquarters of the U.S. Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM), the 557th Weather Wing, and the 55th Wing (55 WG) of the Air Combat Command (ACC), the latter serving as the host unit.

Strategic Air Command

At one minute past midnight, on 9 November 1948, Offutt gained international prominence when it became the host base for Headquarters Strategic Air Command, which was moved from Andrews AFB, Maryland. Secretary of the Air Force Stuart Symington chose to locate the Air Force's crucial long-range atomic strike force at Offutt primarily because the base was centrally located on the North American continent, placing it well beyond the existing range of long-range, nuclear-armed bombers to (then) stay safely out of range of hostile missiles or bomber aircraft.”

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UFO News Article: “The Mysterious Cold War Case Of Unidentified Aircraft Descending On Loring Air Force Base – When it comes to cases involving unidentified flying objects, few are as well documented or involve as many people as what occurred at Loring in 1975.”

27 August 2020

(The Drive, U.S.A.)

The War Zone  reports on the UFO incidents that occurred over Loring Air Force Base (Limestone, Maine) on 27 and 28 October 1975.

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/35674/the-bizarre-mystery-of-unexplained-aerial-incursions-over-loring-air-force-base

Wikipedia article: “Limestone, Maine”:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limestone,_Maine

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Aerial view of Loring Air Force Base, Limestone, Maine

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Aerial view of the 3080th Aviation Depot Group area

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Satellite photo of Limestone, Maine (tageo.com)

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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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