Place
United States
39.76 N, 84.19 WView on OpenStreetMap (opens in a new tab)
2 events here, 1952 to 1978, in date order.
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.
At the MUFON symposium in Dayton, researcher Leonard Stringfield presented 'Retrievals of the Third Kind', relaying claims from informants he kept anonymous that the U.S. military had recovered crashed craft and alien bodies. The claims were never verified.
