November 18, 1948 — Andrews AFB, MD
10:00 p.m. USAF Reserve pilot Lt. Henry G. Combs is flying a T-6 Texas combat trainer when he sees an object flying west to east over Andrews AFB, Maryland. It has one continuously glowing white light. The sighting is corroborated by S/Sgt John Kushner, as well as other witnesses on the ground, who says it does “not look like an aircraft.” Combs makes a pass to check on it, but it takes evasive action and he duels with it for 10 minutes. The object performs very tight curves and quick accelerations to more than 500 mph. Combs’s copilots Lt. Kenwood Jackson and Lt. Glen L. Stalker, say the object “could climb vertically, then would drop behind” the aircraft and continue to circle the field. [Eberhart]
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Sources:
Brad Sparks, Blue Books Unknowns Catalogue, Case 140, p. 42;
Air Intelligence Report, No. 100-203-79, p. 15;
Sidney Shalett, “What You Can Believe About Flying Saucers,” The Saturday Evening Post, May 7, 1949, p. 185;
Edward Ruppelt, The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects, p. 46;
Richard H. Hall, Uninvited Guests, Aurora, 1988, pp. 236–237;
Robert Powell, UFOs: A Scientist Explains What We Know (And Don’t Know), 2024, p. 7;
NICAP, “The Lt. Combs / T-6 Encounter”;
Jazz Shaw, “Incident 207: A Tic Tac over Washington, DC, in 1948?” The DeBrief, March 10, 2023; [They get the historical research on Glen L. Stalker wrong and point to a Navy guy with a different name]
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