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Radar/Visual
At Air Force Radar Site
Sept. 1, 1952
Yaak, Montana
Sept. 1, 1952
Yaak, Montana
| Brad
Sparks: Sept. 1, 1952; Yaak, Montana (BBU 2023) 4:45
a.m. Visual
sighting by 2 USAF enlisted men, radar
tracking by 3 men using FPS-3 radar set. 2 small, varicolored lights
became black silhouettes [of "dark, cigar-shaped object"?] at dawn,
flew erratically. 1 hours. (Berliner; cf. Ruppelt p. 194)
Loren Gross:
A newsman from Oleans, New York, a Mr. Bob Barry, interviewed a
S/Sgt. William Kelly who was stationed at the Yaak radar installation
in 1953. According to Sgt. Kelly, on one occasion UFOs appeared on the
site's radar screens exhibiting changes of direction as many as five
times a minute. Some course changes w«re 90 degrees and speeds
were measured as high as 1,500 mph. Six blips at one time appeared on
the radar scopes and the strange targets came within 10 miles of the
GCI site. So close was the indicated range the radar personel left
their windowless operations room to check the sky with the naked eye.
Sure enough, six objects could be seen in the sky an estimated 10 miles
away. When first spotted, the six UFOs were in an in-trail formation,
and shortly thereafter the six UFOs changed to an in-line abreast
grouping. Finally, the UFOs switched to a vertical stack. Sgt. Kelly
said he remembers tracking the UFOs on the radar executing vertical
climbs that exceeded the limit of the site's height finding equipment
(This was probably 100,000 feet). 19. (UFOs: A History, 1953:
Aug-Dec., Pg.5; 19. Hall, UFO Evidence, Pg. 85)Mike Swords: Ruppelt was very high on this case as it is listed as one of
the prime cases brought before and discussed by the Robertson panel
(*). James McDonald also has file on it. (Ruppelt probably
mis-remembered and put it (book) one month early [it is September 1,
instead of August 1).
Detailed reports and documents Robertson Panel report, text version (CUFON) * |