July 5, 1955 — Newfoundland, Canada
3:00 a.m. USAF pilot Lt. Homer H. Speer Jr and copilot Lt. Paul Daily, call sign Archie 29, and pilot Lt. Robert W. Schneck and copilot Lt. David Cueldner, call sign Archie 91, are flying Boeing KC-97 Stratofreighters at 20,000 feet on a refueling mission off the coast of Newfoundland. They see two bright objects at 20,000 feet, apparently stationary. Ground radar picks up several objects, some in a distant cluster flying erratically. Speer is able to maintain visual contact, calling direction change of the object to the radar site by radio. The objects are tracked on radar for 49 minutes. [Eberhart]
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Sources:
Brad Sparks, Blue Book Unknowns Catalogue, Case 1137, p. 228;
Chris Rutkowski and Geoff Dittman, The Canadian UFO Report, Dundurn Press, 2006, pp. 296–297;
NICAP, “Archie 29 KC-97 Radar Case”;
Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022, pp. 263–264