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Radar
Tracks Sucessive Passes
May 23, 1953
Capetown, South Africa
May 23, 1953
Capetown, South Africa
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Ridge: May 23, 1953; Union of S. Africa South African headquarters announced in November that on May 23, radar had tracked an unidentified object near the Cape at over 1000 mph. [Prescott Evening Courier, May 22; UFOE, VIII]. "Radar operators picked up an unknown object which passed over the Cape six times at a speed definitely exceeding 1,250 miles an hour. Each time it passed it was within radar range, for sixteen seconds at distances varying from 35,000 to 50,000 feet, and altitudes between 5,000 and 17,000 feet." James McDonald: Case 37. Capetown South Africa, May 23, 1953
In November 1958, the South African Air Force released a
brief announcement concerning radar-tracking of six successive passes
of one or more unknown high-speed
Michael Swords: The case comes from Aime Michel. As far as I know we only
have the info from his "Truth" book. (*).
Detailed reports and documents reports/530523capetown_michel.htm (Michel/Swords) |