December 11, 1955 — nr. Jacksonville, FL
9:00 p.m. Near Jacksonville, Florida, two airline pilots and ground observers see a fast-maneuvering, orange-red, round object, with ground radar tracking. Two USN jets on a practice night-flying mission are vectored to the object by a Naval Air Station Jacksonville controller. On approach the object suddenly rises up to 30,000 feet then dives back down in a circle, buzzing the jets. [Eberhart]
Sources:
Brad Sparks, Blue Books Unknowns Catalogue, Case 1163, p. 232;
Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 32;
Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History, 1955, September 16th–December 31st, The Author, 1993, p. 110;
Richard F. Haines, “Aviation Safety in America - A Previously Neglected Factor,” NARCAP Technical Report 01-2000, October 15, 2000, p. 48;
Dominique F. Weinstein, ‘Unidentified Aerial Phenomena - Eighty Years of Pilot Sightings: A Catalog of Military, Airliner, and Private Pilots sightings from 1916 to 2000’, NARCAP TR-04, 2001, p. 31;
