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This NICAP-hosted compilation of USAF Project Blue Book records covers the radar-visual intercept of 1 August 1952 near Bellefontaine, Ohio. It holds a press clipping, the ATIC case summary, correspondence between the Air Technical Intelligence Center and the 664th AC&W Squadron, and a completed radar data sheet. Two F-86s from Wright-Patterson took gun camera film of the object. The early evaluation lists it as unknown, but other pages attribute the sighting to a jet on radar and a research balloon seen by the pilots.
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19 1 August 1952 Bellefontaine, Ohio Description of Incident At 15512 a radar track appeared 20 miles NW of V-P AFB. The course was 240 degrees at 400 knots. Two F-06's under OCI control were then 6W of that position. The fighters were vectored and made visual contact at 15552. Fighters stayed with the object until 16132. Interrogation of sources, on AF major and lieutenant, reveal the following: a. The F-86's climbed to 48,000', fell off, and then made a second climb to 48,000'. The pilot made a camera run. The major estimated the object at 50 to 70,000'. The object's size, accepting source's estimate of distance was 24-40' in diameter and source said his optical sight just covered the object. The films were not sufficiently clear. The object appeared as a fuzzy, small image in the upper right hand corner with discernable motion to lower left. b. Two important facts were established: Re-affirmation that the UFO moved at 400 knots and indication that the two 7-86's and UFO appeared simultaneously on the ground radar scope. It is obvious that all eyes and antennas were fixed on the same object. Comprirte ! what shall we do ? The object was not a balloon, since the speed was too fast. A radinacode was released at 1500E and moved off to the east. The object moved against the wind. The blip size was that of a normal a/c. The object was not a known a/c because the altitude was too high. The object was not astronomical as dual radar returns eliminate this. Electronic or visual mirage of meteorological phenomenon is out of the question as the radar set was on high beam, and both would not occur simultaneously in the same place. The sighting occurred "above the weather". Conclusion -
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