28 March 1966
(Redlands Daily Facts, California)
Source: NewspaperArchive.com
The whole article:
“An airport control tower operator reported seeing a glowing, oblong
object manuvering high in the sky Sunday [27 March 1966]. He said it was
tracked on radar.
Six Columbus policemen, and a control
tower operator at Ft. Benning,
Ga., also said they saw the
strange object.
Doyle Palmer, an air traffic control operator at Muscogee
County Airport,
said he first spotted the greenish white, cigar shaped object at about 5:30
a.m., and that it was tracked on radar at Atlanta
for over an hour. He estimated its height at about 5,000 feet.
Palmer
said he had first thought the object was a star, ‘but you don’t pick up stars
on radar.’ He said he could still see it clearly after the sun came up—when
stars normally disappear—but by that time it had shrunk to the size of a pin
head and was moving southeast.
Columbus police detective G.H. Ferguson said he spotted the object after hearing
radio reports about it. He described the glowing thing as wedge-shaped and said
he saw it rising in the air. He reported it was much brighter and moved faster
than a star. Ferguson
said he observed the object until after 7 a.m.
Don Haddock of radio station WDAK also said he watched a triangle-shaped
glowing object in the same area until 7 a.m.
All reports concurred on the location of the object southeast of Columbus over an Army restricted
area.
Air Force officials have said the UFO reports in Michigan were caused by marsh gas phenomena.
Palmer reported he did not know of any swamps or marshes in the area of Columbus where the
strange glowing object was seen.”
My comment:
This radar (the object was tracked for over an hour)/visual UFO case is
very interesting, to say the least.
The oblong, triangular (wedge) shaped object which manoeuvred over a
U.S. military (Army) restricted area south west of Columbus, Georgia, was
sighted by Doyle Palmer, an air traffic controller at Mucogee County Airport, a
Fort Benning control tower operator, six police officers and Don Haddock of
radio station WDAK.
I also reported about this United Press International (UPI) article on
25 July 2012.
Wikipedia article: “Fort
Benning”:
Google Search (Images): “Muscogee
County Airport”:
Related posts:
realtvufos.blogspot.com/search?q=Radars
Fort Benning, near Columbus, Georgia
(Google photo)
(tageo.com photo)
