From the exhibition
Pulp Magazine Cover, 1953
· May 1953

This is a U.S. Air Force intelligence document reporting unidentified aerial sightings near Goose Bay, Labrador on May 1-2, 1953. The first incident involved an F-94 pilot (Captain R.L. Embery) with 2,300 flying hours who maintained visual contact for approximately 30 minutes with a white light-emitting object at 24,000 feet, located 15 miles southwest of the base. The object demonstrated evasive maneuvers and was estimated to travel at 6,000 knots; radar contact was never established. A second sighting by Maritime Central Airways pilots occurred 130 miles southwest of the base, reporting two moon-shaped luminous objects that briefly accompanied their aircraft before accelerating away. The document includes statements from multiple Air Force personnel (2nd Lt. K.R. Meath, 2nd Lt. H.L. Brown, and tower operators) and concludes both sightings as "unidentified objects" due to excessive speed, lack of radar correlation, and inability to identify by configuration.
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