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Group /Category 9 - Radar
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Huge Disc Sparks Scramble
September 24, 1959
Redmond, Oregon
Francis Ridge:
On September 24th, 1959, a huge disc hovered over the city of Redmond.
Six F-102 fighters were scrambled from Portland. As they took off, the
Air Force radioed the pilots of a B-47 bomber and a F-89 fighter on routine
flights nearby, ordering them to join the chase. The Air Force radar at
Klamath Falls tracked the disc. Given the Air Force "explanations" and
some incorrect data in 1959 and published in the UFO Evidence (1964), the
validity and seriousness of this encounter is much clearer in the MUFON
report published much later in 1989.
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