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F-86 intercept and gun-camera film north of Dayton, Ohio

Name: F-86 intercept and gun-camera film north of Dayton, Ohio
Start: 1952-08-01
Location: Dayton, OH

When: 1 Aug 1952
Where: Dayton, OH
Sources: 1 public source

F-86 Sabres in 1952, the fighter type involved in the intercept north of Dayton USAF photo 82042 AC, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

An Air Defense Command radar near Bellefontaine tracked a fast target north of Dayton, and two Wright-Patterson F-86 pilots photographed a silver sphere on gun-camera film. Blue Book first carried it as unknown, then attributed it to a jet and a weather balloon.

Sources

FirsthandThe Report on Unidentified Flying Objects (Edward J. Ruppelt, 1956) (opens in a new tab)Project Gutenberg / 1956

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