Form: 97 Initial Report
Jets Scrambled To Intercept UFO
At 4:20 A.M., an unidentified "bogie" was detected on radar at the
West Palm Beach International Airport by FAA air traffic
controller C. J. Fox. Fox described the contact as a "good clear
target." The object was tracked for over an hour when at approximately
6:00 A.M., NORAD was alerted. Two F-106 jet fighters were dispatched
from Homestead AFB, south of Miami, to locate and identify the the
unknown object. The object disappeared from radar scopes shortly
before the jets arrived.
There were visual reports from the West Palm Beach
International Airport by FAAwatch supervisor George Morales.
He viewed the object through binoculars and described the object
as silver white in color and cigar shaped.
Officials at Miami Interanational Airport, which also tracked the
strange object, reported no aircraft was known to be in the area where
the UFO was
spotted.
Reference: UFO INVESTIGATOR, October 1972, pages 1, 4)