# February 12, 1956 — SW of Goose Bay, Labrador — Green & Red Object Circles Jet, Tracked on Radar

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![02121956-GooseBayLabrador-TwoF89Scorpions](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/uapdiscovery/original/2X/5/5ea8ff73c86e2086217225743cc18340f301165e.webp)

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]

Record Card:

 ![02121956-GooseBayLabrador-BB-RecordCard](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/uapdiscovery/original/2X/e/eb7d976cc779a2bad930181b2da78dc9c22429b6.jpeg)

Telex:

 ![02121956-GooseBayLabrador-BB-Telex-p1](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/uapdiscovery/original/2X/7/78dcbd4ac0db8f70a359ab1ddaec5c2a92105ffe.jpeg)

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Sources:  
Brad Sparks, Blue Books Unknowns Catalogue, Case 1174, p. 233;

 ![02121956-GooseBayLabrador-Sparks-Case1174-p233](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/uapdiscovery/original/2X/b/b27ddf9e44e2c1445e2c951aa47033e54d895e8d.png)

Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, A History: 1956, January–April, The Author, 1993, p. 41;

 ![02121956-GooseBayLabrador-Gross-p41](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/uapdiscovery/original/2X/d/d11cc9bbc73d9cf2cbc3263fce6594899e406a02.jpeg)

Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022, p. 262;

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NICAP, “Green & Red Object Circles Jet, Tracked on Radar (BBU 3969)”;

> **[UFO Report](http://www.nicap.org/560212goosedir.htm)**