RADCAT Case Directory
  Category 9, RADAR  
 
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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.

Close Encounter Has Radar Evidence
Aug. 19, 1965
Lockport / Cherry Creek, New York

Dan Wilson:
Aug. 19, 1965; Cherry Creek / Lockport, New York (BBU 9806):
Between 8:00 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. local time, a momentary target was picked up by an AN/FPS-6 Long Range Height Finder Radar of the 763rd Radar Squadron at Lockport AFS New York. The target was sighted near the upper limit of the radar. This system had a maximum range of 200 nautical miles and a height-finding capacity of 75,000 feet within an angle limit of minus 2 to plus 32 degrees.

Brad Sparks:
8:20-9 p.m. (EDT). Mrs. William Butcher, son Harold, 17, and children [3 students?], heard radio interference and beeping sound in a barn, went outside to see 50 ft wide saucer like two plates lip-to-lip [elliptical?], 20 ft thick, shiny silver or chrome color with red glowing streamers [reddish vapor underneath?] and leaving a red-yellow trail, which landed nearby then rapidly ascended into the clouds turning the clouds bright green a few seconds later; burned gasoline odor; farm animals reacted and later reduced milk production. Object returned twice at 8:45 and 9 p.m. finally disappearing to SSW [or SW?]. Radio drowned out by static, a tractor engine stopped. Next day, a purplish liquid, 2 ft x 2 ft marks and patches of singed grass were found at the site by USAF Capt. James Dorsey and 4 technicians from Niagara Falls AFB. (UFOE II, Section I; Berliner; cf. Hynek UFO Rpt pp. 170-2; Vallée Magonia 675, 684 ) See BB documents and Trace Case report below.

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