February 12, 1956 — SW of Goose Bay, Labrador
10:55 p.m. Two F-89D fighters flying at 20,000 feet, one crewed by pilot Bowen and radar observer Crawford, suddenly see a green and red object 40 miles southeast of Goose Bay AFB [now CFB Goose Bay], Labrador. It rapidly circles their jet, and the other fighter tracks it on radar but cannot see it visually. About 15 minutes later, operators at Goose Bay paint a stationary target about 40 miles southwest of the base. The two pilots vector toward the object and obtain radar contact, but it vanishes when they get within 8 miles. [Eberhart]
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Sources:
Brad Sparks, Blue Books Unknowns Catalogue, Case 1174, p. 233;
Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, A History: 1956, January–April, The Author, 1993, p. 41;
Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022, p. 262;
NICAP, “Green & Red Object Circles Jet, Tracked on Radar (BBU 3969)”;