Posted On: June 12, 2022

Here are a couple of military based UFO events that took place in the 1950s. Sorry about the robot voice. For now we are going to do a combination of some human narrator videos and some robot voiced ones. Our long term goal is to have 100% of our videos, human narrator. We are looking for volunteers. Send us an email if you are interested.

Air Force Jet Attempts To Shoot Down a UFO

The year was 1952. The place, unknown air force base within the USA. An Air Force Jet Attempts To Shoot Down a UFO.

It was not just a case of sending Air Force planes aloft to get a closer look, and film UFOs when possible. Captain Edward Ruppelt, Chief of the Aerial Phenomena Branch at Air Technical Intelligence Center, and former head of the Air Force’s Project Blue Book, reported that in one instance in the summer of 1952 an Air Force jet attempted to shoot down one of the flying saucers.

On a certain morning, (no date is given), a radarscope near a certain Air Force base picked up an unknown target that approached at 700 mph, then slowed down to a point northeast of the airfield. Two F-86 Sabre jets were scrambled but at first were unable to locate the target. The second pilot suddenly spotted what at first he took to be a balloon, but a closer view showed that it was definitely saucer-shaped, "like a doughnut without a hole."

He began chasing the object and got as close as 500 yards away when it began to accelerate. When it was at a range of 1000 yards (the machine gun bullets converge at 1300 yards) he began firing at the target, but it pulled up into a climb and disappeared in seconds. Ruppelt was given this report by an intelligence officer at the base, who said that he had been ordered to burn all copies, but had saved one.

It is fortunate that the pilot lived to tell the story. Others have not been so lucky. General Benjamin Chidlaw, former Commanding General of Air Defense Command, told researcher Robert Gardner in 1953:

"We have stacks of reports of flying saucers. We take them seriously when you consider we have lost many men and planes trying to intercept them."

If there is any truth to this statement, then the authorities have perfectly understandable reasons for withholding the facts about UFOs from the public. There are few hints of such disturbing facts in the released Air Force Intelligence reports. Many such reports, especially those classified as top secret or higher, remain classified on the grounds that their release would compromise national security. But I do have a document that relates to a possible collision with an unidentified object, an emergency cable sent to the Director of Intelligence at Air Force HQ, dated 26 June 1953:

"FLYING OBJECTS WERE SIGHTED BY PILOTS AT APPROX 2130 HOURS 24 JUNE PD TWO JET OUT OF QUONSET POINT HAS [HAD] A MID AIR COLLISION AT 21:30 hours 24 JUNE 53 AIRCRAFT FELL IN FLAMES 15 MILES WEST OF QUONSET POINT MAS PD AMERICAN AND EASTERN AIRLINES PILOTS WHO REPORTED FLYING OBJECT WILL SUBMIT ON SIGHTING TO DIR INTELLIGENCE HQ USAF AND TECH INTELLIGENCE CENTER WRIGHT PATTERSON AFB."

Whether the collision was due to an interception of a UFO may never be known, but it is evident that the incident caused considerable consternation, and the distribution list for the emergency cable included the CIA, Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the National Security Agency (established in 1952).

1953: Air Force Jet Disappears While Intercepting A UFO

The year was 1953. The place, near Soo Locks, Michigan, USA. A military jet closed in with a UFO and then appeared to collide with it.

One of the Air Force’s most frightening cases that did involve an apparent collision with an unidentified object took place later in 1953. On the evening of 23 November 1953, an Air Defense Command Ground Control Intercept controller was alerted by the presence of an unidentified and unscheduled target on his radarscope in the vicinity of Soo Locks, Michigan. An F-89C Scorpion jet was immediately scrambled from Kinross AFB, piloted by Lieutenant Felix Moncla, Jr., and his observer. Lieutenant R. R. Wilson, in the rear seat. The GCI controller vectored the F-89 to the target, and noted that the UFO changed course as the plane approached at over 500 mph. Nine minutes went by.

Gradually the F-89 closed the gap and the controller advised the men that the target should now be in sight. Suddenly the two blips on the GCI radarscope merged into one, as if they had collided. For a moment a single blip remained on the scope but then disappeared. Marking the position, the controller flashed an emergency message to Search and Rescue.

Possibly Moncla and Wilson had managed to bail out in time, possibly not. After an all-night air/sea rescue search, not a trace of wreckage or the missing men was found. An Air Force press release stated tersely:

"The plane was followed by radar until it merged with an object seventy miles off Keweenaw Point in upper Michigan."

The incident has never been satisfactorily explained.

Resources: Above Top Secret, Timothy Good, 1988

My Take: This is a terrifying encounter. What happened to that pilot? Did his plane disintegrate? Did he get abducted and never returned? We may never know. Please include your thoughts, in the comments.

Posted On: June 12, 2022

Here are a couple of military based UFO events that took place in the 1950s. Sorry about the robot voice. For now we are going to do a combination of some human narrator videos and some robot voiced ones. Our long term goal is to have 100% of our videos, human narrator. We are looking for volunteers. Send us an email if you are interested.

Air Force Jet Attempts To Shoot Down a UFO

The year was 1952. The place, unknown air force base within the USA. An Air Force Jet Attempts To Shoot Down a UFO.

It was not just a case of sending Air Force planes aloft to get a closer look, and film UFOs when possible. Captain Edward Ruppelt, Chief of the Aerial Phenomena Branch at Air Technical Intelligence Center, and former head of the Air Force’s Project Blue Book, reported that in one instance in the summer of 1952 an Air Force jet attempted to shoot down one of the flying saucers.

On a certain morning, (no date is given), a radarscope near a certain Air Force base picked up an unknown target that approached at 700 mph, then slowed down to a point northeast of the airfield. Two F-86 Sabre jets were scrambled but at first were unable to locate the target. The second pilot suddenly spotted what at first he took to be a balloon, but a closer view showed that it was definitely saucer-shaped, "like a doughnut without a hole."

He began chasing the object and got as close as 500 yards away when it began to accelerate. When it was at a range of 1000 yards (the machine gun bullets converge at 1300 yards) he began firing at the target, but it pulled up into a climb and disappeared in seconds. Ruppelt was given this report by an intelligence officer at the base, who said that he had been ordered to burn all copies, but had saved one.

It is fortunate that the pilot lived to tell the story. Others have not been so lucky. General Benjamin Chidlaw, former Commanding General of Air Defense Command, told researcher Robert Gardner in 1953:

"We have stacks of reports of flying saucers. We take them seriously when you consider we have lost many men and planes trying to intercept them."

If there is any truth to this statement, then the authorities have perfectly understandable reasons for withholding the facts about UFOs from the public. There are few hints of such disturbing facts in the released Air Force Intelligence reports. Many such reports, especially those classified as top secret or higher, remain classified on the grounds that their release would compromise national security. But I do have a document that relates to a possible collision with an unidentified object, an emergency cable sent to the Director of Intelligence at Air Force HQ, dated 26 June 1953:

"FLYING OBJECTS WERE SIGHTED BY PILOTS AT APPROX 2130 HOURS 24 JUNE PD TWO JET OUT OF QUONSET POINT HAS [HAD] A MID AIR COLLISION AT 21:30 hours 24 JUNE 53 AIRCRAFT FELL IN FLAMES 15 MILES WEST OF QUONSET POINT MAS PD AMERICAN AND EASTERN AIRLINES PILOTS WHO REPORTED FLYING OBJECT WILL SUBMIT ON SIGHTING TO DIR INTELLIGENCE HQ USAF AND TECH INTELLIGENCE CENTER WRIGHT PATTERSON AFB."

Whether the collision was due to an interception of a UFO may never be known, but it is evident that the incident caused considerable consternation, and the distribution list for the emergency cable included the CIA, Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the National Security Agency (established in 1952).

1953: Air Force Jet Disappears While Intercepting A UFO

The year was 1953. The place, near Soo Locks, Michigan, USA. A military jet closed in with a UFO and then appeared to collide with it.

One of the Air Force’s most frightening cases that did involve an apparent collision with an unidentified object took place later in 1953. On the evening of 23 November 1953, an Air Defense Command Ground Control Intercept controller was alerted by the presence of an unidentified and unscheduled target on his radarscope in the vicinity of Soo Locks, Michigan. An F-89C Scorpion jet was immediately scrambled from Kinross AFB, piloted by Lieutenant Felix Moncla, Jr., and his observer. Lieutenant R. R. Wilson, in the rear seat. The GCI controller vectored the F-89 to the target, and noted that the UFO changed course as the plane approached at over 500 mph. Nine minutes went by.

Gradually the F-89 closed the gap and the controller advised the men that the target should now be in sight. Suddenly the two blips on the GCI radarscope merged into one, as if they had collided. For a moment a single blip remained on the scope but then disappeared. Marking the position, the controller flashed an emergency message to Search and Rescue.

Possibly Moncla and Wilson had managed to bail out in time, possibly not. After an all-night air/sea rescue search, not a trace of wreckage or the missing men was found. An Air Force press release stated tersely:

"The plane was followed by radar until it merged with an object seventy miles off Keweenaw Point in upper Michigan."

The incident has never been satisfactorily explained.

Resources: Above Top Secret, Timothy Good, 1988

My Take: This is a terrifying encounter. What happened to that pilot? Did his plane disintegrate? Did he get abducted and never returned? We may never know. Please include your thoughts, in the comments.