Lakenheath-Bentwaters radar-visual case

View across the runway and grass of the Lakenheath military airfield from a public viewing area
RAF Lakenheath, one of the two bases whose radars tracked the 1956 targets, seen in 2005 Bev Dickinson, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Over the night of Aug. 13-14, 1956, USAF ground radars at RAF Bentwaters and Lakenheath tracked fast-moving targets, some with visual reports, and an RAF Venom night fighter was sent up and reported a radar lock. The Condon study rated a genuine UFO 'fairly high' in probability.

Sources

  1. OtherScientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects (Condon Report), Case 2: USAF/RAF Radar Sighting (opens in a new tab)University of Colorado for the U.S. Air Force (copy hosted by Project 1947 / Sign Historical Group) / 1969
  2. OtherUFO Encounter I: Sample Case Selected by the UFO Subcommittee of the AIAA (Gordon D. Thayer, Astronautics & Aeronautics, September 1971) (opens in a new tab)American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (copy hosted by NICAP) / 1971-09

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