ID | #1542361384 |
Added | Fri, 16/11/2018 |
Author | July N. |
Sources | “Unidentified phenomena in the vicinity of Kodiak, Alaska,” FBI Memo, 10 February 1950; Fawcett & Greenwood, Clear Intent, p. 16
Ruppelt, Report on Unidentified Flying Objects, p. 19, 99-100
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Phenomena | |
Status | Research
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Initial data
In the night from 22 to 23 January 1950, near the Bering sea at Kodiak (Alaska), pilot Navy Lieutenant Smith made the usual flight to safety control. At 2:40 am he got a radar reading of an object 20 miles to the North, which quickly disappeared. Eight minutes later, he noticed the same or another object. He gave information on the base to know that in this area no known aircraft. Then the radar officer reported that he receives intervention, the like of which he never experienced.
About 3 hours, the USS Tillamock was South of Kodiak, one of the people saw a "very fast moving red light." The object came from the Southeast, moved clockwise around Kodiak and returned to the South-East. Another officer came over, watched it for 30 seconds and described it as "a big ball of orange fire." From him was not sound.
At 4:40 a.m., Lieutenant Smith, is still in the air patrols and not experiencing any problems with the radars, I saw another flash on your radar so fast that she left a mark on the screen. Smith called his team immediately saw that the object was closed the five-mile gap in ten seconds. The apparent velocity of 1800 mph. He tried to chase the object, but he was too agile. Witnesses described two orange fire that revolved around a common center. At some point the object made a sharp turn and headed straight to the plane Smith. He "thought it was a very threatening gesture" and turned off the light. UFO flew away and disappeared.
At least 36 copies of the detailed report of the Navy were sent to various security services, including the CIA, FBI, air force intelligence and the State Department. None of these copies has not been released or published, although a truncated copy of the FBI appeared in the 1970-ies in the query result of the Law on freedom of information. Explanation of the document: "Objects should be considered as a phenomenon, the exact nature of which cannot be determined ".
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Original news
On the night of January 22/23, 1950, near the Bering Sea at Kodiak, Alaska, Navy patrol pilot Lt. Smith made a routine security flight. At 2:40 a.m., he obtained a radar reading of an object 20 miles north, which quickly vanished. Eight minutes later, he picked up either the same or a different object. He radioed Kodiak to learn that no known aircraft were in the area. The Kodiak radar officer then reported that he was receiving interference, the likes of which he had never experienced.
At about 3 a.m., the USS Tillamock was south of Kodiak when one of the men on deck saw “a very fast moving red glow light, which appeared to be of exhaust nature.” The object came from the southeast, moved clockwise in a large circle around Kodiak, and returned to the southeast. Another officer came out to look, saw it in view for 30 seconds, and described it as like “a large ball of orange fire.” No sound came from the source of the light.
At 4:40 a.m. Lt. Smith, still on airborne patrol and experiencing no radar problems, now picked up another blip on his radar – so fast that it left a trail on his screen. Smith called his crew, who immediately saw the object close a five mile gap in ten seconds, an apparent speed of 1,800 mph. He tried to pursue the object, but it was too maneuverable. Witnesses described two orange lights that rotated around a common center. At some point the object made a sharp turn and headed directly toward Smith’s plane. He “considered this to be a highly threatening gesture” and turned off his lights. The UFO flew by and disappeared.
At least 36 copies of the Navy’s detailed report were sent to various security agencies, including the CIA, FBI, Air Force Intelligence, and the Department of State. None of these copies were ever released or published, although a truncated FBI copy surfaced in the 1970s as the result of a Freedom of Information Act request. The document’s explanation: “the objects must be regarded as phenomena . . . the exact nature of which could not be determined.”1
And yet publicly, the Air Force had stopped investigating UFOs. Air Force Captain Edward Ruppelt, who later headed Project Blue Book – the Air Force’s official UFO investigative body – claimed that UFO investigations at this time rated “minimum effort.” The old Project Grudge files, he said, had been “chucked into an old storage case,” and many reports were missing when he sifted through them a few years later. What, then, of the Kodiak case? We do not know the military’s response to this, but Ruppelt noted that early in 1950, the Director of Air Force Intelligence (one of the recipients of the Kodiak report) sent a letter to Air Technical Intelligence Center (ATIC) indicating that he had never issued any order to end Project Grudge. ATIC replied weakly that it had not actually disbanded Grudge, but merely transferred its project functions and no longer considered it a special project. It is possible that the Kodiak incident sparked this exchange.
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