f-89

Updated: May 8, 2025

When the big defense radars on San Clemente Island picked up an unknown target in the same area that the light was being reported two F-89 jet interceptors were scrambled but saw nothing. A few days later investigators learned that a $27.65 weather balloon had caused the many thousand dollars' worth of excitement.

Edward J. Ruppelt - The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects