12 December 1952
(Fairbanks Daily
News-Miner, Alaska)
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).
Wikipedia article: “Big Delta, Alaska”:
Wikipedia article: “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).”
Related
posts:
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Aerial view of Big Delta region [Alaska] (text by Wikipedia)
