RADCAT Case Directory
  Category 9, RADAR  
 
  Preliminary
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RADCAT is a revitalized special project now being conducted jointly by NICAP & Project 1947 with the help and cooperation of the original compiler of RADCAT, Martin Shough, to create a comprehensive listing of radar cases with detailed documentation from all previous catalogues, including UFOCAT and original RADCAT.

Pilots & Crew of B-36 (radar track), Possible Gnd Radar Track
Feb. 13, 1953
Carswell AFB, Fort Worth, Texas


Fran Ridge:
This report is case #27, on the official clearance list. of 41 formerly classified Air Technical Intelligence UFO reports cleared for Maj. Donald E. Keyhoe by Albert M. Chop, Air Force Press Desk.

Brad Sparks:

Feb. 13, 1953; Carswell AFB, Ft. Worth, Texas (BBU)
2:35 a.m. (CST). Pilots and crew of B-36 aircraft (one named Ruth) saw 3 bright lights of equal intensity in stacked vertical echelon formation approaching at moderately high speed (cruise speed of F-86), one object suddenly accelerated then came to complete halt and the other 2 objects did the same, then returned to original formation and repeated the maneuver, ending in a horizontal echelon with center object the pivot, then all climbed steeply in "swinging" motion at high speed. Possible ground radar contact. (Hynek-CUFOS re-eval; Jan Aldrich; FUFOR Index)

Detailed reports and documents
See 27 documents below. 1-7
(1-7) docs/530213CarswellAFB_docs1.pdf
Eight  members of Convair witnessed (doc 8)
(8-18) docs/530213CarswellAFB_docs2.pdf
visual observation was being made at the same time as the radar observation.
(19-27) docs/530213CarswellAFB_docs3.pdf


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