# June 19, 1952 — Goose Bay AFB, Labrador, Canada — Target Suddenly Enlarges

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June 19, 1952 — Goose Bay AFB, Labrador, Canada  
2:37 a.m. At Goose Bay AFB [now CFB Goose Bay], Labrador, radar men pick up a UFO track. 2nd Lt. A’Gostino and others outside see a strange, red-lighted object come in over the field. The radar blip suddenly enlarges, as if the device has banked, exposing a larger surface to the radar beam. The watching airmen see the red light wobble or flutter. After a moment the light turns white and quickly disappears. Apparently, the unknown craft has gone into a steep climb. Keyhoe assumes the radar and visual sightings are simultaneous, but Blue Book records indicate they are separate. [Eberhart]

ATIC Report:

 ![06191952-GooseAFB-ATICReport](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/uapdiscovery/original/1X/d60e1f692a286d27913cbeb48de34798e49dffe7.jpeg)

Sources:  
Gregory Kanon, “UFOs Over The Maritines,” Canadian UFO Report. Vol.3, No. 8 (Summer 1976), p.15;

 ![06191952-GooseAFB-CanadianUFOReportv3n8-p15](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/uapdiscovery/original/1X/ed98b144cc4962a8e51bde1f7bfbecb6eacea053.png)

Loren E. Gross, UFOs, a History: 1952, June–July 20th SUPPLEMENTALS NOTES, The Author, 2001, p. 19;

 ![06191952-GooseAFB-GrossSN-p19](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/uapdiscovery/original/1X/1204080be161fe8259896a997fffea9826a8613f.png)

Donald Keyhoe, Flying Saucers from Outer Space, p. 52;  
Edward Ruppelt, The report on unidentified flying objects, p. 146;

 ![06191952-GooseAFB-Swords-KeyhoeAndRuppeltBook](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/uapdiscovery/original/1X/c256d839ebdc87f2a30bffa6a4a88f70884be171.jpeg)

Brad Sparks, Blue Books Unknown Catalogue, Case 625, p. 139;

 ![06191952-GooseAFB-Sparks-Case625-p139](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/uapdiscovery/original/1X/cc166be76cbeb65e33df533c27f48bb1d1d495d1.png)

Feschino Jr., Frank C. Shoot Them Down! The Flying Saucer Air Wars of 1952. [Lulu.com](http://Lulu.com), 2007, p. 9;

 ![06191952-GooseAFB-Shoot-p9](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/uapdiscovery/original/1X/ba6df2427305af9d94098cf891c3bd045539a2ec.png)

Chris Rutkowski and Geoff Dittman, The Canadian UFO Report, Dundurn Press, 2006, pp. 55–56;

 ![06191952-GooseAFB-Rutkowski-p55](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/uapdiscovery/original/1X/b8ae54972873504b1d3a5b51075f6d7e0dd477bf.jpeg)  
 ![06191952-GooseAFB-Rutkowski-p56](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/uapdiscovery/original/1X/c76de81a7f39e8ee2365c893b9baa7a365db46e1.jpeg)

NICAP, “Target Suddenly Enlarges”;

> **[UFO Report](http://www.nicap.org/detection/radar/520619goose_dir.htm)**