Date: May 15 1964 time: 1130 local class: R/V ground radar/ground visual location: sources: Lorenzen seios 1966 225 Holloman-White Sands Ordnance Testing Range New Mexico radar duration: 45 mins. Evaluation: No official precis

N. Carolina
RADAR DURATION: 30 mins.+
EVALUATIONS: No official

PRECIS: An anonymous informant described a second-hand report of an incident involving UFO reports over the AEC facility at Oak Ridge, Tennessee. A USAFstaffed NSA-run [therefore possibly Air Force Security Service] radar facility in N. Carolina, E of Oak Ridge, tracked two targets which remained nearly stationary for approx. 2 hour. 2 F-4 Phantoms were scrambled to intercept and were vectored to within 5 miles, when targets moved off, outdistancing the F-4s by 60 miles in some 10 seconds. The targets stopped again and the F-4s closed. The targets moved off again with a sudden burst of speed and the F-4s went to afterburners in pursuit, closing to 3 miles @ approx. 25,000'. One F-4 blip vanished from the scope, then 10 seconds later the other F-4 vanished from the scope. Wreckage of both aircraft was found scattered over 8-9 miles, and the crews were recovered alive but psychologically damaged.

NOTES: Since this report is hearsay and the original informant (GCI operator) is said to have been killed in Vietnam no evaluation is possible.

STATUS: Insufficient information
*DATE: May 23, 1969 TIME: 1835 hours CLASS: GV/GR
LOCATION: SOURCES: Disclosure Australia Project

Kalamunda, West Australia Bill Chaker, unpublished manuscript 2002
Internet presence: http://www.auforn.com
RADAR DURATION:
EVALUATIONS:
Case Added: Aldrich
Initial Summary: Two years later, a radar visual event occurred on the 23 May 1969 which involved a DCA radar operator at Kalamunda WA. At 1835hrs two civilian witnesses saw a moving light which travelled from 10 degrees S, through the SE to the E then to the N of them. It appeared as a steady red light on top of a blue-white light. Finally it settled in a stationary position 10-15 degrees bearing 015 degrees. It was described as circular, half the size of the full Moon. It was there for 15-20 minutes before, at 1900 hours it moved off at high speed to the N/NE. The female witness at 1901hrs telephoned Kalamundra radar. On checking the radar screen the operator saw a large echo 9 miles distance at 300 degrees. This meant it was some 2.5 miles N of the civilian witnesses. Contact was held for 30-40 seconds. The echo appeared for short instances on five occasions and finally disappeared at 1942hrs. Interestingly, despite the radar having Moving Target Indicator which meant that it suppressed targets moving less than 6 knots. The target had no noticeable displacement. ⁽¹⁷⁾

(17) Chalker, B. unpublished manuscript 2002 citing copy of a report from O H Turner.

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At 1101,1108,1115,1118,1136 & 1142z, ATC radar-strong stationary paint 300 deg 9NM from Kalamunda. Seen at same time as object like a Abig street slight@ reported over Cloverdale by a Mrs Cosgrove. Radar returns were strong-stationary. Met. Radar at Perth also had unusual returns but times/dates did not tally with above. Return from this latter radar could have been due to inversion over OTC antennas on ground.

Mrs Cosgrove 1835hrs (1035z) of Cloverdale WA. Blue/white light, with red light on top from SE 12 deg el. Very fast but slow at other times. Stopped overhead for 15mins then left at speed to N.

pp238-241 of 580/1/1 part 11.

NOTES: TBP
STATUS: TBP

DATE: January 1970 TIME: N/A CLASS: R/V ground radar/visual
LOCATION: SOURCE: Good ATS 1987 310

South Korean Republic
RADAR DURATION: unspecified
EVALUATION: ROK Air Force   possible hostile dirigibles

PRECIS: A report from the Republic of Korea (ROK) Intelligence Agency to the US Defence Intelligence Agency reads:
On 10 and 11 February 1970 a meeting of all Commanding Officers (CO) of ROK Air Force (ROKAF) Security Units (SU) throughout the ROK was held at ROKAF Headquarters in SEOUL . . . . At that meeting the ROKAF Chief of

Staff gave those in attendance a highlyclassified briefing concerning recent sightings of UFOs in KANGWON do, ROK.

Since the beginning of 1970 ROKAF radar stations along the eastern coast of the ROK in KANGWON do have been sighting (detecting) maneuvers of large balloon shaped objects at high altitude just north of the extreme Eastern Sector of the Korean DMZ. On several occasions these UFOs, which the ROKAF officials are assuming to be dirigibles because of their shape and speed, have penetrated ROK air space, travelled in a southeasterly direction over KANGWON do and then exploded. ROK efforts to recover debris subsequent to the explosions have been unsuccessful.

The ROKAF Chief of Staff speculated that if current maneuvers of the UFOs prove to be successful, then NK [North Korea] may use the self propelled balloons for dropping agents, propaganda, or even epidemic germs into the ROK. His briefing and speculation caused consternation among the ROKAF SU CO's because this was the first report they had had of these penetrations.

NOTES: This is a curious report in several respects. The situation is strikingly reminiscent of the Scandinavian "ghost rockets" of 1946 1948, and the "green fireballs" which caused a furore around New Mexico defence installations in 1948 1950. As in these instances there was much concern about possibly hostile foreign projectiles, and a conviction that the phenomena were real yet never any physical residue despite exhaustive recovery efforts. Eventually the incidents petered out, as perhaps occurred in Korea, without being resolved. Nevertheless it is possible that the suspicion of North Korean intrusions was correct, and a "self propelled balloon" could be a light weight affair which would yield minimum

recoverable wreckage.

The most interesting feature is that the Air Force Chief of Staff called a "highly classified" briefing to inform the Commanding Officers of the Air Force's own Security Units about an air security matter which had, he revealed, been of concern for at least a month. The Air Force Security officers received this intelligence with "consternation", not so much

because of its content but specifically because they had heard nothing about it. The sightings were characterised as "UFOs" by the ROK Intelligence Agency, and this poses an interesting question about the channels by which such reports reached the Chief of Staff from ROK Air Force sources over a period of several weeks without the knowledge of

command level Air Force officers who, as indicated by the briefing and their own surprise, were responsible for the implied security issue as it might affect ROKAF. Indeed, not only had reports been passively received over this period, but there had also been an active programme to recover remnants of devices which had supposedly been exploding over ROK territory. No wonder there was "consternation" among the assembled chiefs of security!
One interpretation is that as long as the objects were being characterised as "UFOs" the reports were routed through dedicated intelligence channels with an obscure destination, the implication being that these channels were rather secure even from those whose business was security. Once the reports had been evaluated and ground searches failed to turn up any evidence, opinion began to favour a North Korean origin for the "balloons" and they ceased to be treated as "UFOs". They were now a mundane defence threat and thus ordinary Air Force business, at which point the responsible security command was brought into the loop.
There is no proof of this scenario, of course, and conversely it can be argued that as long as the reports were "merely" of UFOs they were not taken sufficiently seriously to warrant the Chief of Staff informing the Commanders of Air Force Security Units. But this still does not explain how none of them knew: after all, there would inevitably be a potential security issue from the first such sighting, and even if reports did not pass routinely over their own desks it is hardly credible that they would not be informed, either by a memo, or by casual talk, or at least by rumour. There were evidently a number of incidents, "several" of which had involved explosions in ROK airspace, as well as efforts to recover wreckage, and there was sufficient intelligence on the matter to warrant a top level briefing which spanned two days. This is not the sort of activity that is likely to pass by commanding officers completely unnoticed for several weeks, nor is it consistent with a matter which had not hitherto been taken seriously, and the idea that information was being actively secured is quite persuasive.
There is much more extensive evidence that analogous intelligence arrangements existed in the US since at least 1952, and probably still do. There is some evidence of a common policy, or at least a reciprocal understanding in these matters, between the US, Canada, the UK and some other European countries, in a pattern perhaps broadly congruent with NATO. This seems to be the first indication of such an arrangement in the protégé state of South Korea.

STATUS: Insufficient information

*DATE: Spring, 1970 TIME: CLASS: R/V ground radar/ air visual, ground visual
LOCATION: SOURCES: Weinstein, ACUERVC, Vol. 4

Lorring Air Force Base

Maine
RADAR DURATION: minutes

EVALUATIONS:
Case Added: Aldrich
Initial Summary: TBP
NOTES: TBP
STATUS: TBP
*DATE: July 29, 1970 TIME: CLASS:
LOCATION: SOURCES: Disclosure Australia Project

Sepik River, Paupa/New Guinea

Internet presence: http://www.auforn.com
RADAR DURATION:
EVALUATIONS:
Case Added: Aldrich
Initial Summary: 49 distinct UFO reports from PNG [PAPUA NEW GUINEA] for the period June 1958 to August 1971 from these files and these are listed in attachment one. The 29 [49 reports were found in the Papua/New Guinie file including one radar case ]Jun 1970 Sepik River radar case stands out from the rest as one of interest to us. The DAFI file has a single page reporting this event, with no analysis and no follow up, yet it is written off in the Annual Summary as Aelectro-meteorological@ what ever that means!

3581.29 Jun 70 Sepik River PNG 1720hrs 1M Keog Radar

Pilot of F27 aircraft VH-FNK reported radar observation. On descent from 12,500 feet noted echoes on radar 60 deg green to abeam his plane. Radar scale set at 180nm and echoes appeared to be 60nm from plane and keeping station with him. There were five cigar shaped objects. With the radar scanner on maximum depression or elevation the echoes disappeared. DCA advised there were no aircraft in the area. File ref 69/4393.

p53 of RAAF file 580/1/1 part 13. [Electro-meteorological phenomena]

29 Jun 70 Sepik River PNG 1720hrs 1M Keog RadarPilot of F27 aircraft VH-FNK reported radar observation. On descent from 12,500 feet noted echoes on radar 60 deg green to abeam his plane. Radar scale set at 180nm and echoes appeared to be 60nm from plane and keeping station with him. There were five cigar shaped objects. With the radar scanner on maximum depression or elevation the echoes disappeared. DCA advised there were no aircraft in the area. File ref 69/4393. (P53 of RAAF file 580/1/1 part 13.)

NOTES: TBP
STATUS: TBP

*DATE: September 4, 1970 TIME: CLASS: R/V ground radar, air radar/ air visual, ground visual
LOCATION: SOURCES: Weinstein, ACUERVC, Vol. 4

San Juan de Porto Rica,

Porto Rica

RADAR DURATION: minutes
EVALUATIONS:
Case Added: Aldrich
Initial Summary: TBP
NOTES: TBP
STATUS: TBP
*DATE: October 24, 1969 TIME: 12:43 A. M. CLASS: Surface Radar/Surface Visual
LOCATION: SOURCES: Bill Chalker

Pacific Ocean, 359 miles south of Valparaiso Port

off the coast of Chile
Internet Presence: http:// www.waterufo.net
RADAR DURATION: 8 minutes
EVALUATIONS:
Case Added: Aldrich
Initial Summary: Pacific Ocean, about 350 miles to the south of Valparaiso Port, off the coast of Chile. The incident involved a Chilean Naval destroyer and was witnessed by crew members and the commander of the vessel. Just after midnight, on or about October 24, 1969, a Chilean Navy destroyer, a week out of dry dock at Talcahuano Port (where the ship's axle had been removed and replaced), was navigating at 20 knots and heading north 20 degrees port side from NNW). The incredible events that followed took place over the next eight minutes.
At 12:43 A.M. the radar officer reported a long-range flying contact. A minute later the Acontact" was at 400 miles. Because of the "object's" speed, the operator suspected a malfunction in his equipment. In the next minute the contact was approximately 150 miles away closing from 331 degrees of true north. But the operator and officer in charge during the late night duty (an officer of second-class rank) speculated that the contact was a "plane flying southeast@ --but at 213 miles in a minute: 12,780 mph!

One large and five small objects were sighting approaching the ship. The five smaller objects were egg-shaped and appeared to be no bigger than eight feet long and five to six feet wide. They were bluish in color The larger object was estimated to be twice the lenght of the ship. As the objects approached the smaller object made elliptical circles forwards and backwards between the large object and the ship. At 300 yards there was a humming noise and the power went out.

As it passed over the ship and off 200 yards the power systems came back on. The small objects formed on the bigger one and at about two miles vanished like someone turning out a light.

NOTES: TBP
STATUS: TBP

*DATE: November 4, 1970 TIME: CLASS: R/V ground radar/ air visual, ground visual
LOCATION: SOURCES: Weinstein, ACUERVC, Vol. 4

Zaragoza Air Base,

Spain
RADAR DURATION: minutes
EVALUATIONS:
Initial Summary: TBP
NOTES: TBP
STATUS: TBP
*DATE: November 18, 1970 TIME: 1400 M CLASS: GR
LOCATION: SOURCES: UFO Bulletin (Auckland University UFO Res Gp) 8/71, pages3-4

Christchurch, New Zealand
RADAR DURATION:
EVALUATIONS:
Case Added: Aldrich
Initial Summary: Radar Report from Meteorological Office Christchurch

Brief Synopis

AWednesday the 18^th November last Christchurch Met Radar was engaged in tracking constant level balloon from Hekitika as part of a study fo lee waves being carried out in conjunction with Neil Cherry, M.S.C., of Canterbury University who is trying for a PhD on a wave study. At approximately 1400M the constant level balloon was at a height of 30,137 feet 128 KMS (70nmls) distant from Christchurch on a bearing of 151 deg True. Wind direction at this level was 310 deg 70 kts. At this point the Radar, which is auto follow acquired a new stronger target then the standard radar reflector on the constant level balloon and commenced tacking this target. For this to have occurred the second target must have been within 4-500 meters of the original target and of much greater reflectivity, e. g. an aircraft.
AWhen this occurred I had gone up to the Terminal Building {payday} and left a young graduate to write down the readings which he proceeded to do despite the fact that they did not appear to be from the original target. Upon my return the radar was still tracking the new target and the graduate recording the readings. It was immediately obvious to me that he had picked up an aircraft which I thought would be from Bigram. I picked up the slide rule and saw that we were getting quite unusual heights so we maintained the tracking until the target speed became so great that the radar would not held in lock. Tracking was then abandoned.

ANot a great deal was thought about the target we had acquired for a few days until in an idle moment I fired a few more reading on the slide rule, thinking to myself that the Skyhawks certainly do have an impressive performance. A week or so later, I had a course of advanced navigators over at this installation and in the course of conversation, I mentioned the impressive Skyhawk performance. The Navigators assured me that it could not have been a Skyhawk or any other aircraft in the R.N.Z.A.F....
ABeing a little more curious then, I put the reading through a Hewlitt Packard desk computer and obtained the results you will see on the attached form. [not included] I did not do a great deal more with the information except every now and again take it out and breed over it. Briefly, what we have is an aircraft with the capacity to climb to 63,247 feet wih a rate of climb up to 7000 feet per minute at 60,000 feet and maintain an average ground speed of 80-100 kts. Looks a bit like a super jet helicopter or some special form of a U2, but not even the U2 is far as I know, can pull off that rate of climb at around 60,000 ft. Another interesting point is the half minute changes of heightBI am not really up on aircraft performance these days, my experience finished with a Halifax about 25 years ago, but all I can think that it must have been rather uncomfortable descending at 2355 ft min for half a minute and then climbing at 2046 ft min. Many other instances will be seen on the figures.
AI think hat the figures shown will be fairly self evident. Readings were taken at 30 second intervals with all value taken to two decimal points.
AIt must be realised that these reading are spot reading at the specified time intervals, for example we show a height change of say 1000 meters between two readings when conceivably it could have been much greater as he time interval may have occurred when it was on he way up again. I have shown heights in feet fo people not familiar with metres, shown the half minutes height changes in metres, and to convert that to a more familiar

has shown the rae of climb/descent in ft/min fo the half minute intervals. The ground speed in knots was obtained from the half minute ground positions and shows a high degree of variation almost as though the aircraft flying along a track in a series of tight turns combined with a few doglegs of very small magnitudeBsounds all very uncomfortable. The readings on the form above the red line are the last readings off the constant level balloon. The height changes shown off these readings are partly from wave effect but predominately from inaccuracies on the elevation readings at very low elevation of three degrees. Consistency of the ranges and azimuth readings are shown from the last three velocities obtained from the constant level balloon.

AReading the accuracy of the readings at ranges of 120 kms and elevations of below five degrees we can expect with a weak target an appreciable degree of inaccuracy on elevation readings, slant range should be spot on and a small error is likely in azimuth . This small error becomes appreciable in he resultant calculation of bearing, however, with the elevation above 5 degrees and ranges around 100 kms the degree of accuracy is pretty high particularly with a target of the signal strength of this target. Basically, we can say that the reading are pretty reliable and the degree of error negligible particularly considering the signal strength of the target.
AA computer analysis of the height and ground speeds could probably show a definite pattern if the programme was arranged to smooth out the half minute readings into a form of continuous reading.
AThere is absolutely no possibility that the target echo was a radar phenomenon such as angel echoes and so on. I have been operating and in charge of radar installations for far too long to be caught by that one.
AOne interesting point is that at the moment of acquiring this target it appears as though the craft had seen our constant level balloon and had turned off its predominantly northwest heading to examine the balloon.
AThe Air traffic control would most probably have located this target, but I should imagine that the operators would not have paid much attention as it was well off the air lanes and also the most significant point with this aircraft was its height and this information would not be available to the Air traffic control operators.
AYou will note that when the target was lost the ground speed had shot up to 245 knots but it was very rapidly increasing after than. Our radar will hold a lock at that speed without any trouble but I was observing the scope at eh time and the target pulse was moving off at a speed greatly in excess fo the 248 knots.

AAn interesting exercise but I would be interested to find out just what type of aircraft can put on this sort of performance.@
F. W. Borthwick

Met. Radar Christchurch

NOTES: TBP
STATUS: TBP

*DATE: 1971 TIME: CLASS: GR/AR
LOCATION: SOURCES: The Sun. Sep 13, 2008

Salisbury Plain, England ANI

Horne, Marc, Scotland on Sunday Sep 24, 2008
RADAR DURATION:
Internet Presence:  http://news.scotsman.com/uk/RAF-officer-breaks-37year-silence.4489914.jp


EVALUATIONS:
Case Added: Aldrich
Initial Summary: An RAF expert claims that the Ministry of Defence in Britain asked him to keep quiet after he tracked a whole fleet of spaceships on military radar in 1971. Wing Commander Alan Turner, 64, who was a chief operator of the RAFs radar system for 29 years, said that all his colleagues were surprised to see 35 super-fast vessels appear on their screens. He said that the craft were equally spaced and shot from 3,000 ft to 60,000 ft at almost 300 mph. He revealed that every UFO would suddenly vanish from radar after a few seconds, and be replaced by an identical vessel moments later. According to him, six military radars and operators at Heathrow spotted the UFOs east of Salisbury Plain, and filed reports on the unexplained phenomenon in 1971.The RAF chief even drew a map charting their flight in between key sites like RAF Lyneham, Wilts, and the aircraft navigation transmitter at Brookmans Park, Herts. A Canberra aircraft returning to base was asked to investigated the radar returns. Within about a mile of the return the pilot reported a radar return climb rapidly, but no visual contact.

Turner:

AThe objects were about 3,000ft above ground level when they first appeared and climbed so rapidly that, by the time they disappeared from radar they were in excess of 60,000ft."To climb to such a height in only 40 miles was beyond the ability of almost any fighter aircraft at that time."

NOTES: TBP
STATUS: TBP

*DATE: April 29, 1971 TIME: 1850 hours CLASS: GV/GR

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