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This National Security Agency release begins with an 18 July 1955 cover letter from the Air Force Special Security Office, Northeast Air Command, sending the Director of NSA reports on UFOB sightings in the NEAC area. It contains RB-47 radar and visual contacts over the Canadian Arctic in June 1955, plus signed statements on a July 1955 KC-97 and radar sighting near Harmon AFB, Newfoundland. The release also includes a 1958 intelligence report on unexplained radar tracks in the Panama Canal Zone and a later mission report noting a bright light.
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AT FROM 5,000 - 10,000 FEET. I ASKED 'ARCHIE 29' IF HE WOULD ATTEMPT TO CLOSE ON THE SICHTED OBJECT USING CAUTION, FOR A BETTER REPORT. THE PILOT @ 'ARCHIE 29', LE H.E. SPEER AGREED AND CHANGED COURSE TOWARD THE OBJECT. APPROXIMATE RANGE TO THE OBJECT WAS 40 MILES. THE OBJECT WAS STILL HOVERING IN APPROXIMATELY THE SAME LOCATION. AS THE RANGE DECREASED, THE OBJECT BEGAN SLOWLY MOVING NORTHWARD. AFTER TRAVELING NORTH ABOUT 10 MILES THE OBJECT MADE A TURN BACK SOUTH. 'ARCHIE 29' CLOSED TO WITHIN 18 MILES OF THE OBJECT, THEN IT DEGAN TO MOVE OFF IN A NORTHERLY DIRECTION AGAIN ABOUT 070 DEGREES TRUE. 'ARCHIE 29' REPORTED THAT THE OBJECT WAS MOVING NORTHWARD AND CLIMING. HE SAID IT LOOKED LIKE HE WAS NOT CLOSING ON IT ANY LONGER. AT THIS TIME I REQUESTED PERMISSION FROM 'DIGNITY' (CONTROL CENTER) TO 'SCRAMBLE' A FICHTER AFTER THE OBJECT. REQUEST WAS APPROVED AND 'SCRAMBLE' WAS COMPLETED. RANGE OF OBJECT BY THIS TIME WAS 390 DEGREES TRUE AT 80 MILES. SHORTLY THEREAFTER, A MONITARY CONTACT WITH THE OBJECT WAS MADE ON OUR HEIGHT FINDER. ALTITUDE WAS 35,000 FEET. 'ARCHIE 29' REPORTED THAT OBJECT WAS GETTING MORE HIGHER AND FADING FROM VIEW, DUE TO LESSENING OF SUN'S REFLECTION ON IT, AND ALSO SUN SHEAD RESTRICTED VISION. WHEN FIGHTER BECAME AIRDORNE, OBJECT WAS 110 MILES NORTH OF THE STATION. FIGHTER PILOT, SHAKO 56, REPORTED HIS RADAR WAS INOPERATIVE HE REQUESTED TO CONTINUE MISSION FOR ATTEMPT AT NISUAL CONTACT. WHEN SHAKO 56 REACHED 'ARCHEE 29' POSITION, THE OBJECT HAD FADED FROM VIEW. BOTH AIRCRAFT WERE NOW 150 MILES NORTH-EAST OF THIS STATION. AIRCRAFT WERE TRANSFERRED TO 'CRANDPA'S' CONTACT MORETABILIZ, THEN TURNED BACK TOWARD BARRON. BOTH LANDED WITHOUT FURTHER INCIDENT." SIGNED 2ND LT. CHARLES H. DENNET USAF SENIOR DIR 640TH ACH SQ. GE 3 C PAGES
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Report, from the nsa collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 26 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.