Source: Richard D. Seifried

A GCI (ground control intercept) radar operator is working an exercise in cooperation with the Strategic Air Command. His call sign is "Dora" and the site number is "P-9." It is June or July of 1958. The time of day is approximately 2 PM.

"Out there on Long Island, that is where this thing started. [The] very tip of Long Island is called Montauk Point. They had a radar. I was down here at Highlands, New Jersey [McGuire AFB]. We had one up here at Saratoga Springs, New York. We had one in Benton, Pennsylvania and this one over here ... we used to call it Blue Knob ... over near Pittsburgh someplace ..."

"This thing started probably around 2 o'clock in the afternoon. Montauk Point started to pick up these [six] targets [over the Atlantic]. They had a 250-mile range. They started pickin' them up about 200 miles and they tracked them in south of their radar. They got about half way down the Island and we picked them up ... They was just north of New York City [by about 15 miles] and continued across Pennsylvania. Saratoga Springs picked them up. Benton, Pennsylvania picked them up and then Arlington Heights [Illinois] picked 'em up - and it was almost a straight line - and Arlington Heights lost 'em about 150 miles west of [them]. That's the last radar that saw them."

Fighter aircraft were launched from Newcastle, Delaware but were unable to locate the targets. This is understandable because the targets were estimated to be traveling at between 1300 and 1400 miles per hour at an altitude estimated by the "RAW" radar to be above 75,000 feet.

This event was, at the time, "highly classified."

Captain Lloyd W. Chamberlain was the operations officer. Sgt. Henry J. Olson was also a witness at this site.

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