Aviation encounter — Lakenheath-Bentwaters Air Base, Suffolk — 1956-08-13

An RAF Venom pilot reported an aerial observation at or near Lakenheath-Bentwaters Air Base, Suffolk on 13 August 1956. Radar detected an unidentified object reportedly manoeuvring at approximately 600 mph and avoiding an interceptor. The catalogue marks more than one aircraft as involved. Source: Dominique F. Weinstein, Unidentified Aerial Phenomena: Eighty Years of Pilot Sightings (NARCAP TR-04, February2001), PDF page32, table row11.