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The Nash-Fortenberry Sighting over Chesapeake Bay

July 14, 1952 · Over Chesapeake Bay, near Newport News, Virginia

UAP · Disc / saucer · 23 sources

25Thinly documented

Paul R. Hill's Hampton Roads sighting

July 16, 1952 · Hampton waterfront, looking south over Hampton Roads, Virginia

UAP · Sphere · 20 sources

26Thinly documented

Documents7 · see all

Ogc-Olc Records Retention Requirements FOIA release

Central Intelligence Agency· 1978-04-06· 60 pages

…9 _£;{k€'R“§<FF CHAOS, Operation — Cherne, Leo - Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Company, The Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Company of…
FOIA Case Logs- Fy2020 FOIA release

Central Intelligence Agency· 2022-11-16· 79 pages

…1 0/2/201 9 F-2020-00003 CIA RELATIONSHIP WITH JOHN HOPKINS UNIVERSITY, CHESAPEAKE FOUNDATION, PAUL H…
Defense Intelligence Reference Document Detection And High Resolution Tracking Of Vehicles At Hypersonic Report

Defense Intelligence Agency· 46 pages· 1 page mentions it
- p. 19 …Dn 9 September 1961, for example, a Naval Research Laboratory RADAR installation at the Chesapeake Bay Annex was used to…
AAWSAP DIRD, Detection and High-Resolution Tracking of Vehicles at Hypersonic Velocities, November 2010 Official release

U.S. Department of War· 2010-11-20· 46 pages· 1 page mentions it
- p. 19 …On 9 September 1961, for example, a Naval Research Laboratory RADAR installation at the Chesapeake Bay Annex was used to…
Symposium on unidentified flying objects: hearings before the Committee on Science and Astronautics, U.S. House of Representatives, Ninetieth Congress, second session, July 29, 1968. Hearing transcript

U.S. House of Representatives· 1968-07-29· 256 pages· 2 pages mention it
- p. 53 …A Pan American DC-4, en route from New York to Miami, was at 8000 ft over Chesapeake Bay, northeast…
- p. 248 …The Chesapeake Bay Case, July 14, 1952. This is one of the best docu- mented sightings on record, involving extremely…
The Army Air Forces in World War II, Vol. 1 (archived PDF) Document

Air Force Historical Studies Office· 863 pages· 1 page mentions it
- p. 601 …the protection of convoys from Key West to the Chesapeake Bay, and during the summer steps were taken to extend…

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The Nash-Fortenberry Sighting

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Video1952

Nash-Fortenberry UFO sighting

From The Nash-Fortenberry Sighting over Chesapeake Bay

Video1952

06-16-20 Ken Fortenberry, The 1957 Nash-Fortenberry UFO Sighting

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