Case Evidence · CE-V99-017
Knoxville radar reports eleven or more returns over the controlled area; fighter finds nothing
Reported1950-10-12/13 · FBI urgent teletype; CIC summaries
Record
- Date / period
- 1950-10-12/13
- Reported event / document
- Knoxville radar reports eleven or more returns over the controlled area; fighter finds nothing
- Evidence type
- FBI urgent teletype; CIC summaries
- Original data accessible?
- Yes (FBI scan)
- Verification status
- Contemporaneous radar report; object not identified
- Competing explanations / missing data
- Speeds/altitudes are estimates; propagation not excluded
- Next step
- Obtain scope plots, logs, controller and aircrew reports
- Source ID
- SRC-V86-59; SRC-142
Why this grade
Reported From Case Evidence's Verification status ("Contemporaneous radar report; object not identified"). Grade rules.