Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: July 10, 2025
This place is strictly hush-hush. Even the a-j's do not set down too often for fear they will be tracked by radar. Where have you been, boy? Don't you know the Reds are circling around up here? These fellows watch for Red activity, and the Reds watch them. They play it under the table on both sides. We get our supplies overland by cats " "Cats?"
Three more times during the next two months the "mineral club's" equipment recorded abnormal radiation on occasions when the grapevine reported visual sightings of UFO's. One of the visual sightings was substantiated by radar. After these incidents the "mineral club" kept its instruments in operation until June 1951, but nothing more was recorded.
Joe's right. We'll get by this time. And if we don't some other guys'll have to do the job of landing on the Moon. But it'll be done as a starter." "I can see lots of mountains down there. Plain," Mike said quietly. "What's the radar say?" Joe looked. Back at the Platform it had shown the curve of the surface of Earth. Here a dim line was beginning to show on the vertical-plane screen.
"The warehouse is located about a half mile down this street." "Of all the blasted messes," grumbled Walters. "We've got the finest radar system in the universe and we have to walk along here feeling our way like blind men." "There's no other way, I'm afraid," said Strong grimly. "Are you still with us, Kit?" called Walters. "Right here, sir," came Barnard's voice, immediately behind them.
The engines hummed and roared and bellowed, and the ship lifted deliberately and floated away over the icy waste. The little helicopter was very much alone above a landscape which had never known a growing thing. Soames kept in radar contact and when he was ready he told the base, "I'm going down now, hunting crevasses." He let the 'copter descend.
When all the targets had been carefully marked, one of the controllers called the tower and the radar station at Andrews AFB they also had the unknown targets. By 11:30P.M. four or five of the targets were continually being tracked at all times, so once again a call went out for jet interceptors.
But it was unusual because it was northeast of the radar site, and very few airplanes ever flew over this area. Off to the northeast of the station there was nothing but ice, snow, and maybe a few Eskimos until you got to Russia. Occasionally a B-50 weather reconnaissance plane ventured into the area, but a quick check of the records showed that none was there on this night.
Just as the target entered the "ground clutter" the permanent and solid target near the radar station caused by the radar beam's striking the ground the lock-on was broken. The target seemed to pull away swiftly from the jet interceptor.
For several minutes they could clearly see the UFO, but when they reached about 15,000 feet, the clouds moved in and they lost it. The pilots made a quick decision; since radar showed that they were getting closer to the target, they decided to spread out to keep from colliding with one another and to go up through the clouds. They went on instruments and in a few seconds they were in the cloud.
By the time the radar crew had gotten three good plots of the target, they all knew that it was something unusual it was at 23,000 feet and traveling 1,500 miles an hour. The duty controller, an Air Force captain, was quickly called; he made a fast check of the targets that had now been put on the plotting board and called to a jet fighter-interceptor base for a scramble.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking