Group /Category 9 - Radar Case

Richard Hall:
Features: Aerial encounter, radar-visual, high-speed ascent. An F-80 pilot flying in the vicinity of a U.S. Air Force Base saw a rapidly circling red-lighted object at 2200 hours at 27,000 feet. A check with ground radar determined that it was tracking an object at that altitude, now going 900 m.p.h. in the same position as observed by the pilot. The object climbed to 50,000 feet in a matter of minutes and disappeared. Air Force intelligence determined that no balloons or aircraft were in the area that could account for the sighting. The wire report from Germany to Project Sign is included in the report.