09-18-2024, 02:20 AM
• Davis-Monthan AFB, Tucson, Arizona, May 1st, 1952.
Pretty insane incident from the 1952 wave where multiple military personnel (from both ground and air) witness two silent, shiny, silver, metallic disc shaped objects approach and pace a B-36 bomber.
The UFOs were observed to slow down to match the plane's speed and remain in formation for about twenty seconds - they then executed a very sharp no radius turn away from the B-36 where one of the objects then stopped and hovered.
Base Intelligence officer Major Rudy Pestalozzi also witnessed the incident and interviewed the aircrew who had closely observed the UFOs - they described them as having 'a convex top and bottom, 25 feet in diameter and about 12 feet thick'.
The major stated this was 'the thickest report he ever filed on a UFO' but it was mysteriously missing from USAF archives years later when Dr Mcdonald went to access it.
Bluebooks scientific consultant Dr Hynek described this case as 'a classic' and apparently it 'shook up the USAF at high levels'.
From 7:50
Bluebook explanation
'Aircraft'
Pretty insane incident from the 1952 wave where multiple military personnel (from both ground and air) witness two silent, shiny, silver, metallic disc shaped objects approach and pace a B-36 bomber.
The UFOs were observed to slow down to match the plane's speed and remain in formation for about twenty seconds - they then executed a very sharp no radius turn away from the B-36 where one of the objects then stopped and hovered.
Base Intelligence officer Major Rudy Pestalozzi also witnessed the incident and interviewed the aircrew who had closely observed the UFOs - they described them as having 'a convex top and bottom, 25 feet in diameter and about 12 feet thick'.
The major stated this was 'the thickest report he ever filed on a UFO' but it was mysteriously missing from USAF archives years later when Dr Mcdonald went to access it.
Bluebooks scientific consultant Dr Hynek described this case as 'a classic' and apparently it 'shook up the USAF at high levels'.
From 7:50
Quote:Early in the 1952 UFO sighting wave two discs approached and paced a B-36 bomber in the vicinity of Davis-Monthan AFB, Tucson, Arizona. On May 1, 1952, Major Rudy Pestalozzi, a base intelligence officer, along with an airmajn, looked up as a B-36 flew overhead and saw two shiny discs overtake the bomber, slow to its speed and position themselves alongside.
The bomber crew, startled by the experience, made an unscheduled landing at the base and were interrogated at length by Major Pestalozzi, who happened to be the base UFO officer. Members of the flight crew had crowded into the starboard blister aft of the wing and looked down at a slight angle to see the closest disc, which was lens- or double-disc-shaped and about 20-25 feet in diameter. After about 20 seconds, the objects peeled off at an angle of 70-80 degrees from the flight path of the B-36 and sped away.
Major Pestalozzi sent a comprehensive report of the incident to Project Blue Book.
Pilot Illustration
Saved Documents (PDF File)
E-Book:
'The Hynek UFO Report'
Bluebook explanation
'Aircraft'
