[BLANK] radar-visual unidentified-object report — July 1952

THE PRESS: Would that account for the fact that these images disappeared and reappeared on these screens recently? MAJOR GENERAL SAMFORD: Well, if you could select out of this mass any particular one or two and start working on them and say, "What is the possibility of them being these things?" Then you come to the point and say this one is reported to have done this, what feature for it to do those things either one of two conditions, absolute maximum power or no mass. If this is think in terms of a guided missile, it does these things that have been measured and reported. Those which we might identify as being missiles will be tracked. Radar operators in the past, when you inquire of them, have they seen similar lights in the past and because they never bothered to associate them with flying saucers they've never gotten in the newspapers? If you obey, then you have an identity and you can then be followed with precision. THE PRESS: The ones that saw it last Saturday night. THE PRESS: Two of them saw it in -- THE PRESS: What did they say? MAJOR GENERAL SAMFORD: They made good returns and they think that they ought to be followed up. What we're trying to get at is nre you eliminating excluding from any consideration a missile, a vehicle, or any other material object that might: be flying through the air other than sound or light or some other intanglible? THE PRESS: Well, I'd like to point out this fact that the officer in charge of the radar station at Andrews OCR Text Output: -20- Field told me that on the morning of July 20th, which was a week from last Saturday, he picked up an object three miles north of Riverdale and he was in intercom communication with CAA and they exchanged information and CAA also had a blip three miles north of Riverdale and on both radars the same blip remained for about thirty seconds and simultaneously disappeared from both sets. If some farmer out in the middle of Iowa saw a meteor, he'd just forget about it. Supporting case details: Reported craft or object: Light Formation; Disc / Saucer Reported special objects or artifacts: Radar system Physical traces or material: Radar data or reported radar return associated with [BLANK] radar-visual unidentified-object report — July 1952 Electromagnetic or instrument effects: Radar or sensor detection