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1. Case 35. Fukuoka, Japan, October 15, 1948. A very early radar-UFO case, still held as an official Unidentified, involved an attempted interception of the unknown object by an F-61 flying near Fukuoka, Japan, at about 11:00 p.m. local time on 10/15/48. The official file on this incident is lengthy…
136 THE HYNEK UPO REPORT On the fourth interception, the pilot called to me that we had been passed from above from the rear by our target. I picked up the target as it went off my second plane. I picked up the target as it went off my second plane. On the fifth and sixth interceptions, the target a…
A cable from PEAP reported that an unidentified aircraft was sighted both visually and by radar by radar and radar radar observer on a Wakarau plane. There was no evidence of an interception. The sighting occurred at night; however, there was sufficient evidence to indicate that 6 unidentified aircr…
NACRETR 6 Date of Expire 12:02 PAGE 3 LOCATION: SOURCES: Hynek 1978 135 Kyushu McDouglas 1968 (House Symp.) 69 Japan 65 RAIDER'S VISION: 10 episodes overall (60 episodes episodes) EVALUATIONS: Blue Book - unknown PRECISION: At 2365 s at 2 a.m. F1 Black Widow night-fighter was flying off the NW coast…
123. 218 Oct, 15, 1948. About 50 miles NW (at 330° from) Fukuoka, Japan (at 34°00' N, 130°00' E). 11:05 p.m. (intermittently to 1:30 a.m.?) USAF pilot 1st Lt. Oliver Hemphill Jr. and radar observer 2nd Lt. Barton Halter flying a P-61 "Black Widow" night fighter made 6 interceptions of the same or di…
STATEMENT 28 January 1949 1. I, OLIVIE HEPHILL Jr., lt. lt. USAF AO-78-150, see 26, do hereby make the following statement: 2. Present Duty: Assistant Operations Officer and Night Fighter Pilot, with the 16th Fighter Squadron, 3427th Fighter Group (A7) AO 95. 3. On the night of 15 October 1948 by ra…
DR J. ALLEN HYNK 135 the UFOS might have "carried radar warning equipment," because the "object seemed cognizant of the whereabouts of the F-61 at all times." At the time, we placed at least at 11:05 PM on October 15, 1948, some 50 miles northwest of Fukushu, off the northwest coast of Kyushu. A sta…
soon. I realized at this time that it did not look like any type aircraft I was familiar with, so I immediately contacted my Groom. Control Station and asked for information regarding any aircraft flying in the area. The Ground Control Station informed me there were no other aircraft in the area. I …
Date of Observation 15 Oct 48 Date of Interview Date time (local) 2305 Place of observation Pasuoka Area Between Shigamo Shima 3540'W by 1820'00"N and Pass Shima 3824'45"W-12824'00"E, Japan Aircraft pip of unknown aircraft appearing on airborne radar 6 20-30 ft. long N/3 Like aircraft, stubby, clean…
aircraft I was familiar with, so I immediately contacted my Ground Control Station and asked for information regarding any aircraft flying in the area. The ground control radar reported no other aircraft and at no time could they pick up the UFO. Hemphill stated that he again caught "just a fleeting…
UFOs with Radar? In the fall of 1948, Project Sign received a report from Kyushu, Japan, describing the encounter of an F-61 aircraft with from two to six unidentified flying objects. Intelligence reports from Far East air forces indicated that…
UNCLASSIFIED Vertical tail surfaces very well if present, airtail tail surfaces unaccustomed at overcrowded visual angles. Mane also a large underside at overcrowded visual angles. Guerreion aileronable. Sencor or dreamstate if present. Ported into rear tower, all but discernible. Power of propeller…
The airmen felt obliged to consider the possibility that their six attempted intercepts involved more than one unknown. Hemphill mentions that, in the first attempted intercept, "the target put on a tremendous burst of speed and dived so fast that we were unable to attack it." After this head-on int…
NARCAPTR - 6 Date of Report: 12-02 visible canopy, wings, power section or tail assembly - is consistent with a target of very much smaller radar cross-section than the F-61 of any maneuver, making it a very much more magnified target even than the "intermittently" detected F-61. Of six AI contacts …