C~NCLU:iiC., t.rtLve l!.r.: or. "'~re ve ctcrc:-1 -"llJEC! 100'13 ftATf~.;R DATA S~f'- RLOCitl DIRECTION ALTITUDII: WLOCI!I DlJCJI:CTIOI i-'9-~(It r at wbat_ alt1t~7 lUI Alii fiiUHDIRito.. ll)ft;D Ill It at what t7 teDtlaa at. teet. tentba at teet. tenth at teet. I. VISIBILIU lAS tM tttl W3Z. P.e6a ~to a.e,oao,ftll ott, ' atao, aooeUa& ' oaU.te ot .... r= vSaunl .sn. ~ Qll bt p '-a, tile qoo4 vu too ~' A NViuoadct sa t ot the quc=t101l . an oocn. aill<aeoua~ m 1M 1. ........ .......,,b le .-..._ ala'*-ot u tan1cleDt.ltled t1Jial DOWNGRADED AT 8 YEAR INTERVALIJ DICir48SIFIED AFTER 11 YBABI. of lr-P ArB. The eourae ..re \hen locat.ecl t.en mil and ude na.aal oont.aot. at. lnt.erroca\t.on of ouo, aa U 30r aDd 11.-at.enant., reYeal t.he tol a. fhe r-86 eliabecl t.o ~.S,ooo, tell ott, and then ude a a ecord to !,l,ooo. !be aaJor a ND t.be aeconcl t.il:le and recei wcl a ..U ntMna on hta ndar pndpt.. a. U.t.enant. alcht cacecl ao be I'IOdYecl DO nt.urn. tbe 3or ob.1eot. at. lt,ooo-20,000 abo'Ye h' al\1 ot l,a,ooo. Na t.e wu -=lal\an\lat.ecl b) the ra"ce capab111 t.7 , et Uae radar Pft81cht.. Die 3' alae, aourcea eat.t-1~ of clie- . : -----wu II, l,o lia a.~aet.er and IGVM ldd ld.e opt.lcal 1i1ht ju~ eOYered tbe wen aot. ntn.ele~ oler. Dae ob.ject appeared aa a ia t.be npt. rMr wit.b cllaoernable .oU.on t.o taet,az a.-atnawauon t.bat. the t.wo F-86 1 and UIO a p- h u obriou t.hat. all qea and uat.ea- U. 010 acwecl at. not.a and uae aCE ...,.. -ftad --obt1M' 1M ot..jeot. ... aot. a b''oon, a. ... t.oo taat.. A rawlntoftde Nled at; 15001 aond ott \o U. !be object. aOYecl qainat. \be 1dDII. !be blip 81M .. ot a d.NNft. 1M object not. a alnnft al\1. _. a. eb3eot. wu DOt. aat.rono.ieal u nc1ar re\unae elJalaat.e or aince ot Mt.aoroloc- le1 18 ' ot "-u Uae wu oa hip and t.t.b " oeov s-1'--J, Ia tM -icbU.ac ooourred DO\VNGRADl~D AT 3 YEAR INTF!RVALS: . DBCI,ASSIFIED AF1"ER 12 YEAlta. f.r ' rat. uu. AT S YF.AR tNTEn''AL!IJ: AFTER 11 YEAltS, .. THIS DOCUMENT iiWOAMATION AIJIICriNG THE NATICIIW. M THI UNI liD ITAYa WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE ESJIIIONAGE N:r.ID U. S. C.- II & AS AMENDID. 111 011 THE REVELATION 01 rn alNTENTS IN ANY MANNER TO AN UNAUlltORIZ0 PRSON IS PROHIIITED IV LAW. IT IMY MOT. IIIPIIODUCID 011 Ill NIIT. ft MUCIES. DCUI IY POMISSION 01 THI Dl Of jet plane, flying out of Cleveland. It had not been identi8ed im- becau.e the Bellefontaine station had not received its flight plan. At to:-ts that morning the jet had ~n north of Dayton, at low altitude on a southwest heading, at a speed of around s-5 miles an hour-the exad time, position, and speed of the radar ) 11le pilots of the interceptors never saw this jet. \Vhat they aw, what their gun radar detected, und what their gun camera photographed was a twenty-foot radiosonde balloon that had been released from Wright-Putterson Air Force Base that morning shortly before the sighting. Ground radur, on the other hand, never picked up the balloon. 3 ) The chief reason for the c!onfusion was that ground radar did not have a height-8nding devke. \Vhen the operator noti8cd the pilots that his scope shO\vt.>d a blending of the returns pro- duced by the pumait jets and by the unknown, neither he or the pilots had any way to tell whether the unknown was directly above or directly below the pursuing jets. At 30,000 feet the pilots were too high to see the Cleveland jet far below them. Rut they did see the balloon above them and naturally assumed that it was the object they were supposed to be chasing. -t ) Since the ground radar stopped functioning at this point, the operator could no longer track the course of the unknown or of the inteK-epton. If the radar had been workin~. he would have seen that the target continued on to the southwest while the interceptors were searchin1 in a dilerent area to the north. FINAL OALLEY PROOF Galley 63-TilE \VORLD OF FLYING SAUCERS 5) The photogruphs confirmed this n.<:on~truction of a compli- k'rics of C\'(nts. The. pic..-harc.s ohtaint.'<l hy the ~un cm~ra disallayc'(l a wund, indistiiK1 hlur. Annh sis slam\'l'tl tlmt tlw si~.t. uf the. ohjc.'<.1 wus that of a twc.nty-fnot SJlhc.n -u hulloun-photu Kraphc.'<l from a distUIK'C of :)O,ooo fc.'t'l. Jt 1, I !)Sa, two days after the Michigan tr. ownt, such a c~rose with an Impressive radar-vlsual-photo~r., etc sighting Bellefontaine, Ohio [2]. At to:s A.M. C.D.S.T., the radar JCrator at the Air Defense command post pick<d up an uniden- target north of Dayton, moving southwest at a speed of about 515 miles an hour. Two jets from Wright-Patterson Air Force Base w~re ICiambled for an Intercept and were vectored tn by ground control. Since the ground radar wu not equipped with height- finding devices, however, the operator could not direct the pilots to a sped8c altitude; he could only teD them whether they were nearer to or farther from the target. When the jets had reached 30,000 feet, ground radar lnfm med them that they were almost on target, which was stfll moving IOUthwest at the same speed. A few seconds later, the returns frou the jets and the UFO blended on the radarscope and the operator advised the pilots that they would have to continue the search At this 11101nent, unfortunately, the ground radar mddenly failed. Soon after communication between ground and air had ended, the lead ptlot observed a silver-colored sphere several thou feet above him. Both jets went after It but although they to their maximum altitude, .fO,ooo feet, neither could get close enough to identify the object, which wu still some :)0,000 feet above them. One pilot, however, managed to expose several feet of &lm with his gun camera. At the same moment the warning light on his gunslght radar blinked on to Indicate it detected a solid At this point the jets broke o& the intercept and started back to Wright-Patterson Field. pilots then realized that, although they had been chasing an unknown for some ten minutes, they were still northwest of base in almost the same area where they had started the inter ccpt. This surprising fact seemed to indicate that the unknown had slowed down from its original speed of 515 miles an hour, to hover In the sky nearly motionless. Flying-saucer addicts regarded this series of events as an iron- clad case. One of them commented, For the first time a saucer had been photographed during simultaneous radar and visual sight- ings, with the camera 'plane [lie] also locked on by radar. It wu ahlolute proof that this saucer was a solid object, a controlled, disc-shaped machine." [ 10, p. 1og] After lifting the evidence, ATIC investigators eventually found men pros1ic though complicated solution to the puzzle: 2 J~t PUoh f' Obj DA Y.TO="i, Ohto. A u l t'l -Je~ 1ni.Prcrplor p li o.) repo: d to no ;.ht:l:: was a l!r h : r :1ec~:o:l. It v. as the ftrc;. l !:r... p o;.s h~':-e had m.tdc such a po .:a e m af;.c:-i.l. F : =e ba e !".1 ! rccel\'Cd fhe or "~., :o.rronc!s wate!lcd a b ... ~;. oo ,. ,,h. ch ~overed .tbo.e h em I: the:l 1ed and \lll,te and thl'n \\ r:, c \'," tl.ey sale!. 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