B-29 radar bombing run anomalous contact
During a radar bomb scoring run of a B-29 at St. Louis, radar operators detected an object at 48,000 feet descending at approximately 1,000 miles per hour on a collision course, which then maneuvered and disappeared.
“For example, I was talking to some people from SAC the other day, and they were telling me about a radar bomb scoring run of a B-29 out at St. Louis. And they were following the B-29 in to the initial point. The operator noticed this plane flying or an object at 48,000 feet. The B-29 was at 25,000 feet. He immediately thought, 'Well, that's possible.' I mean, double harmonics or something, and anyway, he explained it away in his own mind. Well, then the blip started descending on a collision course, and a quick check revealed that it was descending at a rate of something like 1,000 miles an hour.”
Verbatim from DOW-UAP-D154.pdf · View original on war.gov
Case details
- Date exactness
- Not exact
- Location
- St. Louis
- Country
- United States
- Region
- Missouri
- Branch
- USAF
- Unit
- SAC
- Sensors
- radar
- Altitude
- 48000 ft
Resolution
Possibly atmospheric phenomenon or radar artifact; object made turns and disappeared
Source document
Quote checked against the original file.
This sighting
St. Louis / undated
- DOW-UAP-D154.pdf — Written report of this sighting