June 7, 1955 — SE of Banks Island, NT, Canada — RB-47 Registers Radar Contact over Northern Territories

[jeffknox]

June 7, 1955 — SE of Banks Island, NT, Canada
An RB-47 en route to Eielson AFB, Fairbanks, Alaska, registers an electronic contact southeast of Banks Island, Northwest Territories, Canada, at 10,500 feet range. The radar return is small and rectangular. [Eberhart]

Sources:
Timothy Good, Above Top Secret, p. 286;

Brad Sparks, Blue Book Unknowns Catalogue, Case 1133,p. 227;

Jerome Clark, The UFO Encyclopedia, 3rd Ed., p. 995–996;
Jerome Clark, The UFO Encyclopedia, 4th Ed., p. 1108–1109;

Clifford E. Stone, UFOs Are Real, SPI Books, 1997, pp. 73–76;

Tim Printy, “The RB-47 Contacts from 1955,” SUNlite 4, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 2012): 36;