June 4, 1955 — Melville Sound, Nunavut, Canada
A Boeing RB-47 reconnaissance aircraft of the Air Force Special Security Service (air arm of NSA?) tracks an unknown object visually and by radar for 9 minutes near Melville Sound, Nunavut, Canada. The crew chief describes it as “glistening silver metallic.” The crew obtains gun camera film, but of poor quality. The object speeds off to the north. [Eberhart]
Sources:
Timothy Good, Above Top Secret, p. 285;
Brad Sparks, Blue Book Unknowns Catalogue, Case 1131, p. 226;
Richard M. Dolan, UFO’s and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up 1941-1973, p. 408;
Tim Printy, “The RB-47 contacts from 1955,” SUNlite 4, no. 1 (January-February 2012): 36;
Jerome Clark, The UFO Encyclopedia, 3rd Ed., p. 995;
Clifford E. Stone, UFOs Are Real, SPI Books, 1997, pp. 73–76;
Brad Sparks, “RB-47 radar/visual case” in The UFO Encyclopedia: The Phenomenon From The Beginning, Vol. II: L-Z, 2nd Edition. Jerome Clark editor. Detroit, MI: Omnigraphics, Inc.; 1998. Page 788;
