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November 7 1950 Lakehurst New Jersey

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Navy pilot

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from l t j g two headquarters U.S Air

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Force attention at Lieutenant Colonel

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Willis Pentagon building Washington DC

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commanding officer air development

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Squadron 3. subject encounter with

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strange phenomena while nightfly while

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on a routine night radar navigation

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flight from nas Atlantic City on the

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night of 7th November 1950 the following

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incident took place

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I was flying in ad4q returning from

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seaward and homing in on NAS Lakehurst

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as we approached Lakers at approximately

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3 500 feet I became aware of a single

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steady white light to my starboard about

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five miles which I judge to be another

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aircraft's fuselage

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this light was slightly above me at

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about four thousand feet moving in his

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southeasterly Direction at approximately

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my air speed or slightly greater

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because of the steady light I believe

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this was another military aircraft

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operating from Lakehurst or Atlantic

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City and instructed my crewmen to switch

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our radar to intercept so we could test

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out this part of our gear before

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returning to base

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the time was about 1915 as we were due

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to land at 1930. then I pulled up in a

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slight climbing turn in order to get on

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this object's tail

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divisibility was extremely excellent

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with no overcast

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and with all the stars and planets

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showing brightly

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it was no effort to discern the motion

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of this object because of the background

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of the Stars

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after rolling out on this object's

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course it turned a little more southerly

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in seemed to settle down and I presumed

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I was directly behind it still somewhat

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lower

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in less time than it takes to tell this

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light without making any kind of

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bore down on me in a slight dive passing

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directly over my canopy at an incredible

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speed about 100 to 200 feet

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above me

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puzzled at this my first reaction was

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that we had originally met head on and

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that this was some aircraft without

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running lights and that had been a close

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informing that crewman of what took

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place he disregarded his radar operation

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and proceeded to witness the following

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events

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I then pulled into a tight flipper

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reversal turn in order to see this light

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as before it was still slightly higher

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than I

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and this time I was positive we were on

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his tail pushing the normal rate of

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power and climbing I attempted to hold

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the light in front of me this object

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made another hard-on pass fearing

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slightly port and below so that my crew

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still nothing but a single white light

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close to 10 to 12 inches in diameter

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it moved with fantastic speed

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since we were close to board Navy

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Lakehurst about five miles north

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I tried contacting their Tower twice on

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142 .74 with no response

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still engaging in this cat Mouse tag

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game with this light and recalling that

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our own Squadron had some Jets and other

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ads in our airspace

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switch to our Squadron common frequency

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and requested assistance from any

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confined aircraft in the vicinity

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the commanding officer in his wingman in

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two f-94s answered and set course for

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Lakers

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in the meanwhile after five to six

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passes this object and I got into Port

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orbit

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I frequently check my instruments for

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altitude and engine limitations and flew

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into 60 degree climbing Port Bank

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indicating 130 to 135 knots this light

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continued to turn about me and wider

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climbing turns making about two orbits

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to my one

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at 11 500 feet I abandoned the Chase and

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simply orbited in order to keep the

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object in sight

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when the commanding officer reported

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over McGuire Air Force Base at 14 000

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feet I turned my lights from dim to

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Bright reporting we were still in Port

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orbit but I estimated the object sighted

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about 18 000 feet still climbing in a

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wide orbit and growing dimmer at the

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time they arrived over me the object

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still appeared

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they'll faint at about 25

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000 feet all this took place in a period

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of 25 to 30 minutes

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and at the commanding officer's

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suggestion we return to base

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commanding officer never did sight the

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light

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but as wingman did

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having had experience with Jets against

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conventional and dogfights

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I have a good idea of their speed but

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this object in the encounter described

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previously was making at least twice

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that speed

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while it was passing I tried hard to

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distinguish the shape or form or Wing or

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airfoil

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see nothing but this white light

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pulling up even more after it passed I

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tried to see if I could hit its wash or

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slipstream but there was none

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