December 19, 1964 — NAS Patuxent River. Maryland — Navy Radar Picks Up Unidentified Objects

December 19, 1964 — NAS Patuxent River. Maryland
3:50 p.m. Naval Air Station Patuxent River in Maryland tracks two large targets on radar moving at 6,900 mph. [Eberhart]

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Analysis of Radar Returns:

Sources:
“UFOs Seen on Radar; AF Checking,” San Antonio (Tex.) Express-News, January 6, 1965, p. 1;

“2 Flying Saucers? Radar ‘Saw’ Them,” Salt Lake (Utah) Tribune, January 6, 1965, p. 3;

Beckley Post-Herald, January 7, 1965, p. 1;

“Air Force Receives New Reports Of Unidentified Flying Objects,” Venice (Calif.) Evening Vanguard, January 11, 1965, p. 3;

“Radar Picks Up Flying Objects,” Oneonta (N.Y.) Star, January 12, 1965, p. 3;

“‘UFOs’ False Radar Signals,” Cumberland (Md.) News, January 18, 1965, p. 3;

“Sightings May Trigger New UFO Investigation,” Ontario (Calif.) Daily Report, January 28, 1965, p. B-11;

Harold H. Deneault Jr., “UFOs Return to Washington,” Fate 18, no. 7 (July 1965): 46–47;

“Our Space Age,” Paterson (N.J.) News, July 10, 1968, p. 63;

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Donald Keyhoe, Aliens from Space, Signet ed., 1974, p. 87;

Brad Sparks, Blue Books Unknowns Catalogue, Case 1594, p. 303;