1 . DAT! TIMI NUMall Oft NJICTI WOomera, Australia ASTRO!IOMICAL: lSTF~RS s. LINOTH 0, OUIIVATIOM U. Mil'~ ... LA.t Ylll not reported 1. Green obj ahapad }.ike a saucer, flight to north at high sp . --A_TI_OM ~ Bluish exhaust co.ning fl"O!:l rear. Disappeaead several ti~s o~ tboug b above clouds. ~ visual 2. Bluish green obj in tli(lht to the North, hilJh opeed ....., ,.no additional data avAil&.ble. COUIIII 3. Two tlares nppearin; to drop vertically in the Horthvest. usually l'lortb Or3D8e turnina to a p3l~ blue ..... -,.-H-O_TOI _,.. 4. Bright obJ moving N at high speed. t. f'HY .. CAL IYIOIMCI FTD ''' tl WJt (TDI) fmCLASSJFJED 'rovo t ; ia,-ahal A:~ Force Headquarter R.A.A.F. Field St!ouri.ty O.f't'ic Rr A.n.o.u. Trial3 Fli~ht ~1oor.le:-a, :Jouth Aus~r.&lia 1-~th J:tnuary 1954 Refer3ooe: 8/ll0/2/1al FLYnTO SAUCER SIGH!r.TOI -;:cc~r~U ARPA 1. On the !light or 22Dd23rd November. 1953. three parties o i ' ~7oomera re~ideQte ~ls.i:n l to !l&Ya a .. !l phenom1non in the alcy -..!lion they olaiaa reaembled -the " flyint; sauo.,ra" r~ported in the ~ewwpapwra. ~. ~ !r. e ployed in the ::>,parbne'\t or S'..tpply TrsDS?ort ljfrtoe at '!'ech!!iJ'l a,. \1o011lera stated that hia ;1ife dre, his atte.,tio!t to an objeot in ":!t., fJ!C'j nh~ '; .. v~ :tr1Y1 frOM 'ort Au~.11t:& to "iioomers at about 2200 :tours o~ 2Znd :ro.,amce:-. T:'ley 'Mtrct th!l b tween .'toooalla L"ld D irthdAy Siding. 3. :Jr. aoril::ed the ol:jeot aa bebr: shaped li1cs an invarted Sl\uoer. +.:,d colour a .;rc.Ml aorlbed by hia wtre a ''taal". The object a.:a said to 'te trnvellin.r, in a Northerly <11reot1on at a hi~h spe~d. e:nitti!l~ bluiah coloured cxhauata frc:~ the r ear o..'ld ai<i fir. Scott atatecl that 3.3 the obj~o~. whilat not c~an~b6 oo.Jrse. dilap~sared tor a r:aoraent aenral tlme11 ao~ thou~ flyi."lg o.tove oloud. The cloud b~ae on th'llt l"\1,:;!-lt i;.a rerporte<l by the L!et. ~.eotion t:o have hum 4/Stha at 5 .ooo reet. requeat I did not i!\terYiew hia wile ~o eb aays 1 ~,.y ner~out. that h ooulcl not adcl to his atory. troa t~ same section etated that 3t 0200 hours on the 23rd alao drove to .v~ra ~J the route. t; . nwn he ... about 50 :s1l f'rom ~oomera he saw blu1ah crsen c iroular ob~eot in t ;,e sky tra.ellla~ northward at hig."'l apeed. He oa.nnot !Wthr deaori'be tt. ocjeot. , T3rt1oally to a poaitloD aos~. He said the oolour sta+.ecl he l!l'W ,.lha t appeared to be !;wo flare a ~eat ot the Lake 15 uile1 fr~ Pl~ba o~ the ot the tlar~ ware o~an~. ~i~g to ~ale blue. -..hioh drop?ad Port Aur,u1ta el b,.atar. who,.,..~ driYin?, .1nother oar f\:rtr.er bac'lc :.Jta+:ed ;DNCLASSIFIQ Ai~.Attaohe, Au~tral1a IR-3634 ha saw a brilht objeot prooeedi~g "Tort!\ at a !ligh speed at ap:o;ro:dmat~ly 0230 t:'!e 23rd o~e~'br 1953. Shaw could not enlar~ o-o h i a s tater.1ent. . lours on 9. All the pl!trsona interviewd claimed to ha"'e 'been sober a:1d i:t a !!or::~al fr'lir or mi~d L"UU 1.-ta\at that they have not exaggerated their deacrip t;io:ta o: :rna t they :~aw. They are re~ardecl looally aa bei t'!OI~ reliacl~ people. 'i'ht'Jir !I t ~h~ i s L"Ood. 10. i7h1le no one woulcl eatillulte tlie heig."lt, slze or dt. tance from the object, th., i.r ator1 wh1Qh were 1Ddependent ot eaob ot4er, and ~r only disouaed wit~ aoh ot~er eenral dqa later after eaob hacl given hie atory to other r:eople, are "!fJry aiailar 11. The Yet. Ottioer ' report can only indicate that the object or obje'ltl were at an altitude ot oYer 6,000 teet. It ia poaaible that a bright star ~ hav8 be~n see~ t~rough li:;ht oloud, aM with the turnL"lg or tbl cars, appear to move rapidly in the sky. Al~emately a me rite may have ~een n under the suu condi~iona. A check ~th Conm..at Aatroao.r may throw aa.e light on tlw matter. 12. Forwarded tor 1Dtonat1aa A.'t S Y!AR L'M'EBV ALS~ APTER 1.2 YEAM. (Sgd) Fl t.Lt. .UNCLASSIFIED T1lt1 Klrtroa Some such ~Mehanism probably explains the ra(lar r('tums re- ported in thto Kinross case, which some uurer publications cite as a proved Instance in whieh a flying saucer attackt"d a plane. On the night of Now;mbft &3o 1953. an Air Force jet Wl\5 scrambled fro111 Kinro.s Air Force Bate, Michigan, to Intercept an unidentf&ed obterved on radar. 1De jet suceessfully accoanplished its mis- llon and tdentiBed the unnkown as a Dakota, a Canadian C-47. On ttJ return to the hue, however, the Air Force jet crashed into Lab Mlmlpn and, as often happe.-wh~ a plane crashes Into ~ watet and the ~c:t place of the crash f'S not trnown, no wreck- age was e\"ee' found. As the ground radar at Kinross had tracked the rt>haming jet, the scope had picked up a phantom echo. fn the ft<-~ghborhood of the jet; the two blips had sremed to merge just u both wmt off the scope. the crash was nnt rt.-ported as a UFO incident and did not lnvnl\'e any question of unfdentifled flying objf'ds, ATIC ~as not a~k<->d to ift\estfgate the problem. 11ae offi<.:e of the Deputy Inspec- tor Gc~l for Safety carried out a thorough inquiry and concluded tltnt the crash had been an aircraft accident, probably cnused hy the lilot'ssulertDI an attack of vertigo. As for the two blips shown by ndar, the night had been a stormy one and atmospheric con ditions had been condudve to abnormal returns. The phantom echo had almost 1tainly been a secondary reflection produced by the jet ltlelf, and It thus merged with the return from the jet and vanished with It when the plane hit the water. Solely on the ha'fs of this radar phantom, however, civilian ~aucer groups luch as NICAP (see Chapter xm) have tried to transform the Kini'CIG crash Into a UFO mystery with Air Force investigaton as the vlllinns. According to one spokesman, the ghost blip l'f'pre- an alien 1pace,1'aft that l1appened to ~ cmlsi11g over Lake MichiJC&n that night and attacked the let for one of two reasons: 1 ) 11le tatacer might have tried to an'Oid clast-contact with the jet by turning on:a revtI'JedG:.fk.Jd beam (see ClaJJier 1x)~ colliding thfs beam as \\ith a atone wall, the jet crashed. 2) nac san<."eJ' might ha\e uM'd t'he G-Be1d to K."OUJr tile plane out of tht-air and take It aboard the spa~ft; the captun.od pilot might have bE-en needed to teac:b the English language to his alk~ CU(lton (t,p.sgtl.] .. THE KINROSS INCIDEilT This incident vaa not reported to ATIC as o. UFO sighting and theretore ve have no case tile. Due to the sr~at ooount or public interest in this incident ATIC contacted the FlYing Satet7 ntviaion at Norton AF'B, Cal1tom1o tor intorm&tion per- talnlna to tbia aircraft accident. It vaa detemined f'r011 Borton AFB that vas acrarabled to intercept an uniden- titied aircraft Wbich ~sa aucceestullJ The aircraft vas reported in u a Dakota (Canadian c-47). Fro:D the title that the F-89 started to return to base nothins ot vhflt happened is definitely known. It is b)' th'! oftici~la at Horton AFD tbat the pilot probabl)' suffered from v ertigo and crashed into the lake. The vrecke.ge has never be~n recovered. 'lbis cnse is carried in Air Force l.ircr att Accident Recorda.