July 24, 1952 — Carson Sink, NV
3:40 p.m. Two USAF pilots, Lt. Col. John L. McGinn and Lt. Col. John R. Barton, are flying a B-25 out of Hamilton AFB [now closed] in Novato, California, for Colorado Springs. They are over Carson Sink, Nevada, at 11,000 feet when they see three unknown objects make a left bank and fly to within 400–600 yards of the plane. They are three bright silver, delta-wing craft with no tails and no canopies. The pilots see a clean upper triangular wing with a definite ridge that runs from the nose to the tail. They estimate the speed as at least three times that of any conventional jet. [Eberhart]
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Sources:
NICAP, “B-26 Crew Encounters 3 Triangular UFOs”;
NICAP, “The Carson Sink Case”;
Brad Sparks, Blue Books Unknowns Catalogue, Case 718, p. 162;
Edward Ruppelt, The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects, pp. 10–12;
Michael Hall, “When UFOs Were Serious Business: Then and Today,” IUR 28, no. 4 (Winter 2003–2004): 5;
Michael D. Swords, “Intelligent Motions,” IUR 33, no. 1 (March 2010): 12, 15;
