1. liA i i . TIM!" Gr<OUP 10. CONCLUSION I Sighting a. 1.-a'l<Yr OB::.\ERV.ED v l':>U~.J.y ,_ 4. NUMBER OF OBJECTS Radar: (Probable -~'l~OUS Pr\C?ft.GATlJ!\' ) ~ .. ~ objec"s ,ere ~ainted by SAGr. radars. Radar ex.pe.~:t~, 5. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION l ho~. lj minutes 6. TYPE OF OBSERVATION Ground-Radar 8. PtiOTOS 9. PHYSICAL EVIDENCE I I. BRIEF SUMMARY AND ANALYSIS No objects were seen visually. However, nt~ero~s were tracked at various speeds tro~ slow to about See case tor a description ot flight paths. FTD S E P 6 3 0-329 (TOE) Prevlou adlUotte of U.le IOta .. , t.e u .. d. \ Called Lt. Lean:an ct Kincheloe AFB Nich. He will find out; 1) I! any scope photo's were made 2( ~lliy no interc~pt action was taken 3) what other radars in the area should have picked up the UFO's. What rAdars actually pi u~ tr~ UFO's. 4) If any one in t~e ~52 saw anything unusual, or if t y were u~in~ Any equipment that may eff'a.ct radar. MEMl roR THIC ftECORD lOCD bours Subject: UFO on Radar Lt. Leaman of lCinchelo called Lt. Marano regarding the RADAR sigbtings. 'l'hey did not scramble aircraft because they do not have the capabiJ.i ty. This IIIUB t CC out ot Bqa 29th Air Division at Duluth MlDneaota. Fed the information &D4 why the7 didn't scramble tt did not mow. ihe B-52 did not aee anything and was not playing with the radar. The Sergeant vho was on duty aald that it the B-52 vas playing with the radar he could have gotten on a ditterent channel and not had the problem. Be tried all chanDels and vas settias the same aults. other radar, 753rd at SS Marie had one strobe at 0500Z tracking. SS Marie did not see anything on scope. '.their scopes are roonitored by Duluth. Duluth picked up the strobe. '!'he name ill Duluth waa negative. Only the 753rd picked up one strobe. l-LE)10 FOR THE RECORD Called Hqs 29th Air Division ~luth, l-tinn. Asked for action taken in reguard , to sighting. Will call back as soon as specific action that was taken can b~ fully deter~ined. MEMO FOR THE RECORD: SubJect: UFO Observation 01 Re.dar At 1445, 14 Sep 67 Lt Stoecker lntelligence Division at Duluth, Mlnn, ext 756/755 spoke with Lt. Marano regarding the above sighting. There was no action taken since the visual \laS no more than 5 paints for a short period of ttme and you couldn't have gotten something scrambled in that time. The sighting was on ground control approach radar. All that was observed was at ground level, by then nobody could have taken action. They didn't have anything on their SAGE radars. Lt. Marano asked them how they were on radar. Lt Stoecker said he could not give all the information on the radars but that they weren't too good on low altitude. Lt. Stoecker said they consider the direction and it could be anomalous propagation, bu~ then it could be other causes. The man who reported the sighting is very experienced and would probably would know what it vas if it was lous propagation. Lt. Stoecker said we could probably find out mere by talking to Kincheloe. Lt. Stoecker said he vould send a letter explaining what he bad dtscussed over the phone. Lt. Stoecker said they bad not gotten a report from SS Marie's radar. He said he would check it out again and indicate it in his letter. He didn't seem to concerned that the sighting vaa anything unusual, especially since there was an inversion. DEPARTMENT Of THE AIR FORCE HEADQUARTERS 2 9TH AIR DIVISION (AOC) DUlUTH INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT DULUTH, MINNESOTA 55814 RE~L y TO ' l9QIN ATTN OF: ' suaJECT: Unidentified Flying Object Report (507th Wing msg, 12 Sep 1967) TO: FTD ( TDEDT-UFO) 1. In addition to the RAPCON (Radar Approach Control) sighting of SSgt Burns, two small boys from Ohio sighted a UFO not far from Kincheloe, on Sunday afternoon, 10 September, 1967. Their telephoned report was routed Sault St. Marie AFS (a radar site about 20 miles from Kincheloe to Lt. Leaman, the Infonnation Officer at Kincheloe, who recorded all relevant infomation. This report was not forwarded to FTD due to a lack of evidence to substantiate it. 2. No interception of the objects was attempted because authority for a scramble must come from the Senior Director at 29th Air Division Headquarters. The sighting was not reported to 29th Air Division until the following day. Also the objects were not detected by any SAGE-tied radars, only by the RAPCON unit, which has a range limited to about 40NM, or, at the most, 60N,\t. It is unlikely that any experienced Senior Director would order a scramble under these conditions. 3. There was no visual sighting of the objects, although Kincheloe control tower personnel were on duty at the time, and two of the objects passed over the base. If they were actual physical objects, they were probably at a very low altitude, since they were not detected by SAGE-tied radars. 4. In addition to SSgt Burns, the UFO's were also observed by A2C Rodney Roe and A2C Robert Carlson, both assigned to the RAPCON unit. The unit telephone extension is 319~. 5. SSgt Burns had no explanation for the sighting, and said he had never seen anyti1ing like it before. The equipment was checked for malfunction, and none was discovered. Twenty Ninth Air Division Weather personnel suggested that the temperature inversion might have caused anomolou~ propagation (AP) of the radar, causing false returns. Electronic Warfare personnel said interference from SAGE radars was unlikely. FOR TilE C<1\W.ANDER wrLLIM4 B STOECKER, 1/LT, USAF Assistant Intelligence Officer (;alle<l Ca~t. Tate abou.t He aeia that he bad called clari1oat1on or ~ncbloe ~dar re~ort. aDd Lt. waa to have Lt. at asked why clarification waa AOt aeat out. Lt. Leaan asked what waaD t I aaid tbat it bad C:QIQ8 dowA to me that there vaa only two UFOa oD the radar DOt 17. Lt. aaid tbat there a total ot 17 UiOa OD Lt. lA8111811 aaicl tb.et the JDisnnderataodin& t haYe eriaen trom the tact that he bad aaid that there PO ,_ tor1aation tly1J16 to Reak or, aDd tbat the moat that taey bacl on radar at 01 one time was two, aod tb&t these two were aide by aide. He will a a to clarity matter, both to wa end Colorado, althou.p he talked to Colorado the day before yesterday. Called cap~. jli~eria at Baae Operationaftaad aak~d him abo&.lt aonic He told me "hat eny airora1t movint; at the apeed ot ao~nd or aboYe ~roa&.loee a oontin~oua shock train. This shock veYe ia quite loud aad he eat ted that it co~ld be heard at leaat 10 raile away. I aaked hia if aD. object Jnovinc; at aplJrox. 2,000 111. liU' hr. leaa than a .&Aile hi&h VO\lld be ex~ecte<l to break the viACI.owe of ho~ea over which it paaaed.. He anawered that it detioitely would. He su~eated that I contact Flignt ~na1cs lab. it I needed e~ct details on aonic boome. AWS WPC 9-16A DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE HIEADQUA"TERS FOREIGN TECHNOLOGY DIVISION (AFSC) WRIGHT.ptATTERSON AIR FO"CE BASIE. OHIO 4!5433 f"II'LY TO TDPCS/V. D. Bryant/mjb/70441 UFO Report, Kincheloe AFB~ Michigan w: TDP,T/UFO(Major Quintanilla) 1. Reference is made to sighting of 17 UFO's by radar at Kincheloe AFB~ Michigan. 2. There is no positive way to either prove or disprove the presence of the reported UFO's from the radar data. The fact that SAGE radars at other locations did not observe the objects tends to indicate a local situation. The objects of necessity had to come from outside the observed area at some time~ and should have been observed then (by the SAGE radars), if they were in fact real objects. 3. The obvious "excuse" or "explanation" for the ~ightings appears to be temperature inversion. The erratic courses taken by the "objects", their wide variations in speed (150 to 2000 MPH), and the fact that no noise was heard, even at the low altitudes assumed, all point toward anomalous propagation due to temperature inversions. ~--Y) JEROME J!flONES, Colonel, USAF {) ' Chie r,--command and Control Divis ion Production Directorate UFO Tech Information EXPLANATION ISOBARS are straight. horiLontal brown lines. The he1~hts in feet of the pressure surfaces in the ICAO Standard atmosphere are in parentheses ( ) below the pressure values on the left. SOTHERMS ( C) are the straisht. equidistant bro .. m lines running diagonally upward from left to nzht. l DRY AOIABATS are the slightly curved brottn lines th1t intersect the 1000 mb. isobar at tntervals of 2C, and run dtaaonnally upttard from right to left. SATURATED AOIA9ATS are the curved green lines that intersect-the 1 1000 mb. 1sobar at intervals of 2C, d1verg1ng upward and tendwg to~ become parallel to the dry adtabats. Values appear 1n the upper part ol the d1agram (515 mb level). , SATURATION MIXING RATIO (in gm. pu kg.) is re presented byd~shed ~ green hnes. ThP v tlues appear at the bottom and middle of the llta~ram AO STANDARD ATMOSPHERE SOUNDING is indtcated by a lhtck brottn It ne. I The saturated adnbats and tsopleths of saturation mi,ing ralto are computed by use of vapor ~r~ssure over a plane water surlace at all temperatures. t\PPROXI \4.1 TE VI RTU.\L TE \4 ERATU RE may be obta1ned from thl! formula Tv:::: T + f ~her~ Tv is virtual ter.~perature in oc, T is free air l temperature in C, and w IS mix1ng ratio in grams/ktlogram. Tor purf'()ses of thtckness computauon, use the mean tempuature of the IJyer forT and use the ml'ln rni ""& rauo of the llyer for w BIJck dct~ Jloog t tod scale ltnes tnd1cat'! tne levP.Is for whtch wtnd data ae r or.eo J"rl plotted. The open c1rclas o tnd1cate th~ mandJior J pres~ure -:S 11 ... n.ch .,.,,ild data are also entered. PUBLISHED BY THE AERONAUTICAl CHART AND INFORMATION CENTER, AIR PHOTOGRAPHIC AND CHARTING SERVICE, (MATS) UNITED STATES AIR FORCE, ST. lOUIS 18, MO. wvr=wm~ t9S4 CACIC) FAHRENHEIT TEMPERATURE SCALE Neceuory corrections and additions to th is chart will be submitted directly to: HEADQUARTERS, AIR WEATHER ATTENTION: AWSO P/STDS, SCOTT AIR FORCE BASE. IlLINOIS. Z -DATE-T I M E CAL DATE -TIME, M ONTH, Y R Z -DATE-TI ME Form: A\NS WPC 9-1 DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE HEADQUARTERS S01TH FIGHTER WING (AIR DEFENSE) ( ADC) KINCHELOE AIR FORCE BASE, MICHIGAN 49786 28 September 1967 suaJECT: UFO Message of 12 Sep 67. TOa FTD (TD-ET/UFO) Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio 45438 1. Reference telecon of 26 September 1967. 2. To clarify my message of 12 Sep 67 on the UFOs that were picked up on Kincheloe AFB RAPCON: a. Between the hours of0342Z and OSOlZ, a total of seventeen (17) Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) were sighted by SSgt Michael Burns on the MPN-14 radar at the RAPCON site here. My message only indicates sixteen (16) UFOs, but according to Sergeant Burns there were 17 (he must have skipped one when he was reporting theseries of sightings to me over the telephone on 12 Sep 67). b. On two (2) instances there were two (2) UFOs on the scope at one time. First, at about 0415Z, (items e and f under B.J in my rnessage), one UFO at 230 degrees tracking 030 degrees for twenty miles and then changed its heading to 360 degrees. At the same time another UFO at 280 degrees trackiny 100 degrees for 20 miles turned to 180 degrees where it met the other a~out 30 miles due west of Kincheloe. The two the n !lroceeddd side by side on a eastbound course at c. The other instance of two UFOs on the scope at one time occurred at OSOOZ (items 6a and 6b in my message). These two UFOs did not fly together or intercept each other like the two UFOs did at 0415Z. 3~ ... --rf th~re should be any other TE1<!1~NCE E . LEl\i~)~, 2nd Lt., USAF Infor1nation Offi cer questiJns ptease do not DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE HEADQUARTERS 507TH FIGHTII WINO (All DEFINSIJ (ADC) KINCHELOE All FottCE IASI, MtCHIGAN 49716 3 October 1967 TOJ FTD (TD-ET/UFO) Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio 45438 1. Reference your telephone call of 28 September 1967. 2. My original message should answer the majority of your questions. a. Time the UFOs were