June 30, 1954 — Mobile, AL — Object with Short Stubby Wings Tracked on Radar

[jeffknox]

June 30, 1954 — Mobile, AL
6:50 p.m. Four civilians and several military personnel at Brookley AFB [now Mobile Aeroplex at Brookley] in Mobile, Alabama, see a brilliant silver or white object with short stubby wings approach from the south, circle over Mobile, then depart to the northeast. A radar contact at 6:30 p.m. with a stationary object is evidently unrelated anomalous propagation. [Eberhart]

Blue Book Telex/TWX:

Sources:
“Do We Shoot or Salute, Sir?,” Long Beach Independent, July 2, 1954, P. 8;

Brad Sparks, Blue Book Unknown Catalogue, Case 1050, p. 216;

NICAP, “Object with Short Stubby Wings Tracked on Radar”;

UFO Report

[jeffknox]

“Brookley Base Radar Tracks Flying Object above Mobile,” Birmingham (Ala.) Post-Herald, July 2, 1954, p. 9;

https://www.newspapers.com/article/birmingham-post-herald-birminghamposth/198301244/

“Do We Shoot or Salute, Sir?,” Long Beach (Calif.) Independent, July 2, 1954, p. 8;

https://www.newspapers.com/article/independent-independent195407028/198301277/