Pilots of 2 planes UFO Encounter Goose Bay AFB, Labrador, Canada, 1953
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F-94 Pursues 'Moon Shaped' Object
May 1, 1953 — Goose Bay AFB, Labrador11:35 p.m.
USAF pilot Capt. R. L. Emberry and radar operator 1Lt J. R. Morin are flying an F-94 interceptor at 24,000 feet about 10 miles south of Goose Bay AFB [now CFB Goose Bay], Labrador. Both men and a control tower operator see a white light with a visible afterburner at 10,000 feet. They described as going at a "terrific rate of speed".
Meanwhile the F-94 pursues it, climbing to 40,000 feet, but the object climbs out of sight after 30 minutes.
At the same time a second observation was also seen from the air, when the pilot and copilot of à commercial airlines reported sighting two luminous objects approximately 500 off the right wing of their a/c. The plane was located 130 miles SE of Goose Bay at the time of sighting
ources:
Jeff Knox Vancouver, Washington VIA
Brad Sparks, Blue Book Unknowns Catalogue, Case 964, p. 199;
NICAP, “Unidentified Evades Interception by F-94”;
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