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39 lines
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SUBJECT: ELINT VS. UFO FILE: UFO2403
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Possessing the most sophisticated electronic intelligence (ELINT) gear
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available to the U.S. Air Force, the RB-47 could handle anything.
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Unfortunately, in the morning hours of July 17, 1957, over the southern United
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States, and RB-47 came across something it was unprepared for.
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In the first hint of what was to come, one of the three officers who operate
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the electronic countermeasures (ECM) equipment detected an odd signal. Moving
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up the radar screen, the blip passed some distance in front of the RB-47, then
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over Mississippi. Though puzzled, he said nothing. However, a few minutes
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later, at 4:10 A.M., the sudden appearance of an intense blue light bearing
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down on the aircraft shook the pilot and copilot. Even more unnerving, the
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object changed course in the blink of an eye and disappeared at the two
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o'clock position. The aircraft radar picked up a strong signal in the same
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spot. The UFO maintained this position even as the RB-47 continued toward east
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Texas.
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The pilot then observed a "huge" light, attached, he suspected, to an even
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bigger something that the darkness obscured. When the electronics gear noted
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the presence of another UFO in the same general location as the first, the
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pilot turned the plane and accelerated toward it. The UFO shot away. By now
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the crew had alerted the Duncanville, Texas, Air Force ground radar station,
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and it was soon tracking the one UFO that remained (the second had disappeared
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after a brief time). At 4:50 radar showed the UFO abruptly stopping as the RB-
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47 passed under it. Barely seconds later it was gone.
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This incredible case - considered one of the most significant UFO encounters
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ever - remained classified for years. When it became known years later, the
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Air Force declared that the RB-47 crew had tracked an airliner. Physicist
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Gordon David Thayer, who investigated the incident for the University of
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Colorado UFO Project, called this explanation "literally ridiculous."
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* THE U.F.O. BBS - http://www.ufobbs.com/ufo *
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