Case Evidence · CE-160
Fourth Air Force diary records three or more nights of unidentified aircraft reports over Hanford, searchlight deployment, brief radar contact and failed interception.
Documented1945-01-23 · Contemporaneous military memorandum (reproduced)
Record
- Date / period
- 1945-01-23
- Reported event / document
- Fourth Air Force diary records three or more nights of unidentified aircraft reports over Hanford, searchlight deployment, brief radar contact and failed interception.
- Evidence type
- Contemporaneous military memorandum (reproduced)
- Original data accessible?
- Reproductions online; original NARA scan not independently examined
- Verification status
- Documented military report; object identity undetermined
- Competing explanations / missing data
- Wartime intrusions, misidentification, radar limitations
- Next step
- Retrieve original archival pages and corresponding operations logs
- Source ID
- SRC-140
Why this grade
Documented From Case Evidence's Verification status ("Documented military report; object identity undetermined"). Grade rules.