ck and
forth across the western sky for nearly an hour. A UFO "paced" an Air
Force B-25 for thirty minutes in California. Both of these happened
on June 18, and although we checked and rechecked them, they came out
as unknowns.

On June 19 radar at Goose AFB in Newfoundland picked up some odd
targets. The targets came across the scope, suddenly enlarged, and
then became smaller again. One unofficial comment was that the object
was flat or disk-shaped, and that the radar target had gotten bigger
because the disk had banked in flight to present a greater reflecting
surface. ATIC's official comment was weather.

Goose AFB was famous for unusual reports. In early UFO history
someone had taken a very unusual colored photo of a "split cloud."
The photographer had seen a huge ball of fire streak down through the
sky and pass through a high layer of stratus clouds. As the fireball
passed through the cloud it cut out a perfect swath. The conclusion
was that the fireball was a meteor, but the case is still one of the
most interesting in the file because of the photograph.

Then in early 1952 there was another good report from this area. It
was an unknown.

The incident started when the pilot of an Air Force C-54 transport
radioed Goose AFB and said that at 10:42P.M. a large fireball had
buzzed his airplane. It had come in from behind the C-54, and nobody
had seen it until it was just off the left wing. The fireball was so
big that the pilot said it looked as if it was only a few hundred
feet away. The C-54 was 200 miles southwest, coming into Goose AFB
from Westover AFB, Massachusetts, when the incident occurred. The
base officer-of-the-day, who was also a pilot, happened to be in the
flight operations office at Goose when the message came in and he
overheard the report. He stepped outside, walked over to his command
car, and told his driver about the radio message, so the driver got
out and both of them looked toward the south. They searched the
horizon for a few seconds; then suddenly they saw a light closing in
from the southwest. Within a second, it was near the airfield. It had
increased in size till it was as big as a "golf ball at arm's
length," and it looked like a big ball of fire. It was so low that
both the OD and his driver dove under the command car because they
were sure it was going to hit the airfield. When they turned and
looked up they saw the fireball make a 90-degree turn over the
airfield and disappear