Updates:
Drafted 22 Nov 2000, Update 10 Aug
2006, RADCAT 30 April 2010
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).
Detailed reports and documents
Sandy Hook Incident
My
brief comments on
the case
NARA-PBB89
434
- Jet Chases
Weird Object 30 Miles - Washington Daily News (Dan Wilson)
NARA-PBB85
540-548 - GRUDGE Status Rep. No. 1 / Ft. Monmouth [T-33] Inc.
(Dan Wilson)
NARA-PBB89
1174-1175 -
Balloon
Releases from Fort Monmouth (Dan Wilson)
NARA-PBB89
1177-1182 -
Newspaper Release Concerning UFO - 11 Sep 1951
(Dan Wilson)
NARA-PBB89
1186 -
Memorandum
for Mr. Levy - Release of Information to the Press (Dan Wilson)
NARA-PBB89
1189 - Maj.
Barron
Released Certain Information to the Press (Dan Wilson)
NARA-PBB89
1194-1198 -
Report of
Telephone Conversation / Fort Monmouth Incident (Dan Wilson)
NARA-PBB89
1199-1201 -
Airmen
Overheard In Diner, Unusual Object Sighted (Fran Ridge)
NARA-PBB89
1207-1208
- AIIR, Sept
10, 1951, Sandy Hook (Dan Wilson)
NARA-PBB89
1209 -
Statement of
Wilbert S. Rogers (Dan Wilson)
MAXW-PBB9
203-205 -
Interrogation of Rogers and Ballard (Dan Wilson)
MAXW-PBB8
1466-1471 -
Sept. 10,
1951, Sandy Hook, NJ / Re: Ft. Monmouth (Dan Wilson)
MAXW-PBB8
1501-1502 -
Message
to JEDWP/CG ADC Wright Pat. AFB, Dayton, OH (Dan Wilson)
MAXW-PBB8
1503-1504 -
Rep. of Info on Unconventional Aircraft / Sandy Hook, NJ (Dan Wilson)
MAXW-PBB8
1505-1508 -
Col.
Taylor Making Quick Trip to Washington (Dan Wilson)
MAXW-PBB8
1510 - Pilot
Says He
Saw Odd Object Speed Over Coast at 900 M.P.H. (Dan Wilson)
MAXW-PBB8
1511-1512 - Statements on UFO Sighting Over Sandy Hook (Dan Wilson)
Incoming
Classified Message - RADNOTE - Report and Analysis of Fort Monmouth
Incident (Dan Wilson)
Fort Monmouth Incident
MAXW-PBB8-1269
- Aug-Sept BB Sighting Printout (Fran Ridge)
NARA-PBB89
1184-1185 -
Memorandum for Mr. Levy - Release of Information (Dan Wilson)
MAXW-PBB8
1481-1482 - Ft. Monmouth Case / Violation of AFR 205-1 (Dan Wilson)
MAXW-PBB8
1520-1521 - Fort Monmouth Air Intelligence Information Report (Dan
Wilson)
MAXW-PBB8
1531-1546 - Transcript of Investigation of Fort Monmouth Sightings (Dan
Wilson)
MAXW-PBB9
161-162 -
Sept. 10,
1951, Fort Monmouth, Several Objects Sighted (Dan Wilson)
MAXW-PBB9
164-173 - Fort
Monmouth & Sandy Hook Witnesses (Dan Wilson)
MAXW-PBB9
180 -
General
Information, Weather for Fort Monmouth (Dan Wilson)
MAXW-PBB9
183-186 -
Statmnts
Fr. Members Radar Trng Detachmt, Ft. Monmouth (Dan Wilson)
MAXW-PBB9
189 - EADF
Reply
Concerning Unusual Occurrences at Fort Monmouth (Dan Wilson)
MAXW-PBB9
198 - ADC Requests Full Evaluation of Observations Near
Asbury Park (Dan Wilson)
FBI
-
Confidential Report
on Fort Monmouth Radar Incident - Pages 31-34 (Dan Wilson)
Other News Clippings
2 in Jet
Chase
'Flying
Saucer' Going 900 M.P.H. Over New Jersey
Pilots
See
900-MPH 'Saucer'
In Flight Over Coast of New Jersey
Mystery
'disc'
spotted over
N.J.
Pilot
Says
He
Saw Odd
Object Speed Over Coast at 900 M.P.H.
900 MPH
'Disc'
Chased Over
N.J.
Here's
That
Flying Saucer
Again -- 2 AF Jet Pilots Lose It At 900 MPH
450 MPH
Jet
Tails 900 MPH
'Thing' Over N.J.
Reference Material
The
Fort
Monmouth/Sandy
Hook, N.J., UFO Incidents, Sept. 10, 1951 (Fran Ridge)
The Fort
Monmouth
Story - Too
Many
Coincidences (Captain Edward J. Ruppelt)
The
Ruppelt
Notes
-
(Robert
Swiatek,
FUFOR)
The Fort
Monmouth
Case: A New
Look (Wendy Connors & Michael Hall)
ATIC
Case
File
Map Showing
Location of the
Incident (Wendy Connors)
Desk
Pad
for
September
1951
Showing Notes (Mike Hall)
Evaluation
of
the
Fort Monmouth
Incident
(James E McDonald)
Analysis
Proves T-33 Was Not
Chasing A Balloon (Brad Sparks)
UFO
Updates
Rebuttal -
Further
Analysis
(Brad Sparks)
Another Case
Update
(Brad Sparks)
Setting the
Stage
for
Monmouth (Joel
Carpenter)
UFO Intelligence
Summary
- July-Dec
1961 (Fran Ridge)
5
March 1952, Letter to CSI on Fort
Monmouth Case
The T-33 Jet
Trainer
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