 Category 11 Case Directory SIGHTINGS FROM AIRCRAFT Preliminary Rating: 5 |
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F-51
Trailed
By Object / Lt. Roe Sighting
June 23, 1954
Near Columbus, Ohio
June 23, 1954
Near Columbus, Ohio
| 9:00 p.m. EST Duration 45 mins aircraft F-51 United States |
Military 1 observer No EMI Yes radar contact |
| Brad
Sparks: June 23, 1954. 10 miles SE of Columbus, Ohio (BBU) 8 [9?] p.m. Pilot Capt. Harry Roe, Jr., flying Ohio Air National Guard F-51 fighter at 240 mph from Dayton to Columbus saw round white object with no exhaust trailing the fighter in the same position a little above and behind him at close range, detected on airborne radar [?]. Roe maneuvered to try to lose the object or collide with it but it remained in relatively the same position to the aircraft until it departed to the SE. Ground controller radar tracked object [?]. (Sparks; Project 1947; NARCAP) Dan Wilson:
9:00 p.m. EST. WSW of Columbus. Lt. Harry Roe stated
that the
object chased him from Columbus to Dayton, and he then
chased it back
to Columbus.At 2130 hours S/Sgt Maynard Harris, Radar
Control Operator at WPAFB, was contacted by the Dayton
Municipal
Airport who ask if his radar was working. They ask Sgt
Harris to try to
pick up Lt. Roe and an unknown object on his radar if
possible. Roe's
position was given to Sgt Harris and he plotted two
targets on his
scope. One he surmised to be Lt. Roe's F-51, the other
which was first
following Lt. Roe and then passed him by seemed to be an
object with a
great amount of speed. Sgt Harris requested that two
F-86's who were up
in the Columbus area, to have a look see, which proved
negative. In a
tentative analysis it was indicated that the
unidentified object was
not a jet, not a canopy reflection, and not a weather
balloon. (Sgt
Harris also stated that a pilot of a C-47, serial number
263,
complained of something following him. At 10:00 p.m.,
Major Frank J.
Gshwandtner and 2nd Lt. Robert P. Lommori, flying in the
Columbus area
in an RB-47E aircraft observed a white object the size
of a baseball at
25,000 feet. The object was extremely fast. The
object made a gradual turn and began a slight climb. It
then flew out
of sight. The length of the observation was 30
seconds. A radio
transmission from WPAFB put the crew on alert. Separate
report)June 23, 1954; Between Dayton and Columbus, Ohio (BBU) Detailed reports and documents reports/540623columbus_report.htm (Dan Wilson) reports/540623columbus_thread.htm (thread) |