Martin Shough

Martin Shough analysed radar and visual UFO cases. Several of his studies appeared as NARCAP technical reports. His NARCAP radar catalogue, RADCAT, begins on the date of the 1948 Fukuoka F-61 intercept. In that catalogue he rejected Venus and radar malfunction as explanations for the 1952 Goose Bay sightings. In 2010 he wrote for NARCAP that the BOAC flying jellyfish of 1954 might have been an unusual mirage. With David Clarke he interviewed the Lakenheath-Bentwaters aircrew. In 2008 he co-authored the Alderney study in the Journal of Scientific Exploration. That team could not satisfactorily explain Captain Ray Bowyer's two objects.

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Harmon Field Disc and Cloud Hole Photographs

July 10, 1947 · Harmon Field, Stephenville, Newfoundland

UAP · Disc / saucer · 17 sources

32Partially documented

Analyst who examined the cloud gap explanations

The Fukuoka F-61 Black Widow Radar-Visual Intercept

October 15, 1948 · About 50 miles northwest of Fukuoka, off the northwest coast of Kyushu, over the Korea Strait

UAP · Cigar · 16 sources

46Partially documented

Radar researcher, author of the NARCAP Radar Catalogue

Goose Bay AFB radar-visual sightings, 1952

June 19, 1952 · Goose Bay Air Force Base, Happy Valley-Goose Bay, Labrador

UAP · Unknown · 21 sources

51Partially documented

NARCAP researcher who disputed the Venus explanation in RADCAT

The Lockheed Sighting: Kelly Johnson and the WV-2 Crew

December 16, 1953 · Lindero Ranch near Agoura and the Santa Barbara Channel, California

UAP · Disc / saucer · 14 sources

27Thinly documented

Researcher, author of the 2014 triangulation study

The BOAC 'Flying Jellyfish': Captain James Howard and the Stratocruiser Centaurus

June 29, 1954 · Near the Quebec-Labrador border, about 150 nautical miles southwest of Goose Bay, Labrador

UAP · Formation · 16 sources

30Partially documented

Author of the 2010 NARCAP study

The Lakenheath-Bentwaters Radar-Visual Incident

August 13, 1956 · RAF Bentwaters and RAF Lakenheath, Suffolk, with RAF Neatishead, Norfolk

UAP · Orb / light · 45 sources

65Well documented

West Freugh Radar Incident

April 4, 1957 · RAF West Freugh and the Luce Bay bombing range, Wigtownshire, Scotland

UAP · Unknown · 26 sources

48Partially documented

The Milton Torres Intercept Order: RAF Manston, 1957

May 20, 1957 · RAF Manston, Isle of Thanet, Kent, and the skies over East Anglia

UAP · Unknown · 37 sources

41Partially documented

Researcher who questioned the Project Palladium explanation

America West Airlines Flight 564 (Cactus 564) sighting

May 25, 1995 · Near Bovina, Parmer County, Texas Panhandle (object to the north, toward Tucumcari, New Mexico)

UAP · Cigar · 19 sources

26Thinly documented

Original compiler of the NICAP RADCAT radar catalogue

The Alderney UFO Sighting: Captain Ray Bowyer and the Two Yellow Cigars

April 23, 2007 · English Channel west of Alderney, near the Casquets lighthouse, Channel Islands

UAP · Cigar · 32 sources

36Partially documented

Co-author of the independent study