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This NICAP-hosted file reproduces USAF Project Blue Book records on a radar and fighter intercept near Bellefontaine, Ohio, on 1 August 1952. Ground radar near Wright-Patterson AFB tracked an object moving at 400 knots. Two F-86s from the 97th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron were sent to intercept it and filmed a silver round object, but the gun camera film was too indistinct. The file includes a completed radar data sheet, a request from the Air Technical Intelligence Center, and a memo about releasing film frames to TRUE magazine. Early analyses ruled out a balloon, but a later conclusion identified the object as an upper air research balloon cluster.
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# UNCLASSIFIED In reply refer to ATIAA-5 SUBJECT: [Use1] PLYDRAFT TO: Commanding Officer 664th AC & W Squadron Bellefontaine, Ohio 1. With reference to your unidentified flying object report (FLYDROUT) of 0115502 August 1952, it is requested that you complete the inclosed Radar Observation Data Sheet. You may dmit questions 1, 2, 4, 5, and 6 of Part II as the Air Technical Intelligence Center is already in possession of the complete weather data. 2. However, question 6, Part II, is extremely important. Speci- fically, it is necessary to know if the unidentified flying object and the two F-36's appeared simultaneously on the radar scope. FEDERAL CONSERVING GENERAL 1 Incl Radar Observation Data Short James Chaschal BARTHOLOMEW C. PASCHAL 1st Bury CNAY Abbott New York Cemetery
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