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RAF Topcliffe sighting during Exercise Mainbrace

When: Sep 1952
Where: RAF Topcliffe, England
Sources: 1 public source

RAF Topcliffe, where a Meteor was sent after an object during Exercise Mainbrace in 1952 P Glenwright, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

During the NATO naval exercise Mainbrace, a Meteor jet was sent after a round, silvery object over RAF Topcliffe but lost it. Ruppelt wrote that an RAF officer told him these sightings led the RAF to recognize UFOs officially.

Sources

FirsthandThe Report on Unidentified Flying Objects (Edward J. Ruppelt, 1956; revised 1959) (opens in a new tab)Project Gutenberg / 1956

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