July 18, 1952 — Patrick AFB, FL
9:45 p.m. Three Air Force officers and four enlisted men at Patrick AFB, near Cocoa Beach, Florida, see a series of hovering and maneuvering red-orange lights moving in a variety of directions. [Eberhart]
Record Card:
Report by Lt. Col. Bradford A. Evans: [+addons]:
Witness Statements:
Sources:
Project Blue Book, Status Report #8, 31 December 1952, p. 26;
“The 1952 Sighting Wave, Radar-Visual Sightings Establish UFOs As A Serious Mystery: Part 2, The Flap Begins,” Journal of UFO History 2. no. 2 (May-June 2005): 5;
Brad Sparks, Blue Book Unknowns Catalogue, Case 689, p. 151;
NICAP, “Hovering and Maneuvering Lights”;