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“Fukuoka”

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Munich / Fürstenfeldbruck Radar-Visual Sighting

November 23, 1948 · Fürstenfeldbruck Air Base, near Munich, Bavaria

UAP · Orb / light · 17 sources

42Partially documented

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

Names3

Brad Sparks Person · 0 stories
Brad Sparks is a researcher who compiled a catalogue of Project Blue Book unknowns.
Martin Shough Person · 0 stories
Martin Shough analysed radar and visual UFO cases.
Thomas Tulien Person · 0 stories
Thomas Tulien was a researcher who went back to old cases and questioned the easy answers.

Documents8 · see all

box Incident Summaries 173-233 Official release

U.S. Department of War· 144 pages· 1 page mentions it
- p. 25 …Fukuoka Area between Shigano Shima 33° 40' N by 132° 00' E and Fukuoka Shima 32° 45' N - 128° 40…
Air Intelligence Report No. 100-203-79 Report

USAF Directorate of Intelligence via NICAP· 19 pages· 1 page mentions it
- p. 18 …On 16 September 1947, an MEW radar at Fukuoka, Japan, picked up a target at 89 miles and trailed it…
Analysis of Flying Object Incidents in the United States, 1949 Report

U.S. Department of War· 1949-04-28· 34 pages· 1 page mentions it
- p. 20 …On 16 September 1947, an MEW radar at Fukuoka, Japan, picked up a target at 89 miles and trailed it…
Analysis of Flying Object Incidents in the United States, 1948 Report

U.S. Department of War· 1948-12-10· 67 pages· 1 page mentions it
- p. 39 …On 16 September 1947, an MNW radar at Fukuoka, Japan, picked up a target at 89 miles and trailed it…
Department of State Inr Briefing Note- June 12, 1968 FOIA release

Central Intelligence Agency· 1968-06-12· 132 pages· 1 page mentions it
- p. 131 …of a US fighter aircraft at Kyushu University in Fukuoka. As interest in these issues wanes, attention is likely to…
James E. McDonald statement, Symposium on UFOs, House Committee on Science and Astronautics Document

Princeton (kirkmcd archive)· 1968-07-29· 55 pages· 2 pages mention it
- p. 38 …here and abroad; they do exist. 1. Case 35. Fukuoka, Japan, October 15, 1948: A very early radar-UFO case…
- p. 55 …Official file on October 15, 1948 Fukuoka case, Project Bluebook. • 43. Melbourne (Australia) Sun, December 16, 1954; Melbourne Herald, December…

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