Cat: 11
Distribution: CE, SHG
An officially
confirmed
sighting by an Air Force pilot on March 29,1952, in the vicinity of
Misawa,
Japan, is one example. Lt. David C. Brigham, flying a T-6 as target
plane
for an intercept exercise by two F-84 jet fighters, saw a small, shiny
disc about eight inches in diameter make a pass at one of the
F-84s.
It flew a pursuit curve and closed rapidly. Just as it would
have flown
into Brigham's fuselage it decelerated to his airspeed, almost
instantaneously
In doing so, it flipped up on its edge at an approximate 90-degree
hank.
It fluttered within two feet of his fuselage for perhaps two or three
seconds.
Then it pulled away around his starboard wing, appearing to flip once
as
it hit the slipstream behind his wing-tip fuel tank. Then it passed
him,
crossed in front, and pulled up abruptly appearing to accelerate, and
shot
out of sight in a steep, almost vertical climb. An unusual flight
characteristic
was a slow, fluttering motion. It rocked back and forth in 40-degree
banks,
at about one-second intervals throughout its course.
| Page ID
(PID) |
 MISC-PBB2-868 |
| Collection |
Other Official
Microfilm |
| Roll Description |
Misc Blue Book
Files Roll 2 |
| Document Code |
|
MISC-PBB2 868-869
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869