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Haneda AFB, Japan radar-visual sighting

When: Aug 1952
Where: Tokyo, Japan
Sources: 1 public source

Project Blue Book's case file on the August 1952 Haneda AFB radar-visual sighting Project Blue Book, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Control tower operators at Haneda AFB in Tokyo watched a bright light over Tokyo Bay that ground radar tracked at the same time; a scrambled F-94 got a brief radar lock before losing it. Ruppelt said the Far East Air Force investigators rated it among their best cases.

Sources

FirsthandThe Report on Unidentified Flying Objects (Edward J. Ruppelt, 1956), ch. 14 'Digesting the Data' (opens in a new tab)Project Gutenberg / 1956

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