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ADC
Directs F-82 to 10-20 Egg-Shaped Objects
October 30, 1948
Grays Harbor, Pacific Beach, Washington
October 30, 1948
Grays Harbor, Pacific Beach, Washington
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Sat, 12 Sep 2009 16:31:57 -0400 Brad Sparks: Oct. 30, 1948; About 15 (25?) miles WNW of Grays Harbor /
Pacific Beach, Wash. (BBU)
4:20?-4:30 p.m. (PST). While flying in an F-82 fighter
headed N at 8,000 ft at 240 mph on a GCI intercept mission initially
directed by the ADC radar site 634th Aicraft Control Sq., Neah Bay,
Wash. (505th AC&W Group, Everett, Wash.) radar observer AF 2nd Lt.
Robert L. Kunzman, 318th All Weather Fighter Sq, 325th Fighter Group,
McChord AFB, Wash., saw as he headed toward an interception point a
single compact group of yellow objects in the WNW at 10 o'clock
position which burst into an in-line formation of about 10-20 or 25
white egg-shaped objects that crossed over in front of aircraft to 1
o'clock (in the NNE) heading W to E still in line formation at about
8,000 ft heading S and dropping back to 3 o'clock position in the E,
which he first thought might be seagulls. Objects maintained same
altitude and horizontal flight throughout. Objects then doubled
back heading N paralleling the F-82's course while moving back up to
2:30 o'clock position at high speed, turning translucent part of the
time just before disappearing by fading out or dissolving without going
far enough to have vanished due to distance (some fog with visibility 5
miles may account for disappearance). [If at 5 miles objects
covered 15° from 3 to 2:30 position in possibly 5-10 secs, time
assumed not reported, then relative velocity was possibly 500-1,000 mph
greater than F-82's 240 mph.] He called attention of the pilot
Maj. Homer William Morris who missed seeing the objects. Ground
radar lost object at this same time. AFOSI interviewed radar
controllers at 635th AC&W Sq at Pacific Beach, who tracked "no
unidentified objects at high rate of speed" (leaving unstated what
about unidentifieds at moderate speed) but did not interview at 634th
AC&W Sq at Neah Bay which did the tracking. (McDonald
list; BB Maxwell Microfilm Roll 4, pp. 630-657; NARA Roll
88 pp. 144-149) ? (radar) + 20 secs (visual) 2+ witnesses RV
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