 RADCAT Case Directory Category 9, RADAR Preliminary Rating: 5 |
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Fireball,
Tracked By Gnd/Air Radar, Passes Navy Aircraft
August 9, 1952
Southeast Korea
August 9, 1952
Southeast Korea
| Dan
Wilson: Aug. 9, 1952; K-3 Airfield, Pohang, Korea
8:57PM. The pilot of Richman 18 (USMC aircraft) reported that
he had sighted a long streamer of flame with a ball of fire at the
front. This object passed him 500 yards off his
starboard wing, and 1000 feet above. The pilot requested that Lt.
Nagrodsky, the officer reading the radar scope at a radar ground
station to verify his sighting by radar. Lt. Leo N. Nagrodsky did
observe blips of the object on the scope and he estimated that the
speed
of the object to be 600-800 miles per hour. (Dan Wilson, Project 1947,
FUFOR Index) |