Pepperrell AFB, Newfoundland, September 1953September 1953

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Summary

On September 1, 1953, at Pepperrell Air Force Base in Newfoundland, personnel sighted an unidentified aircraft visually and on radar at 10:25 a.m. A green flare was observed dropping from an unidentified aircraft at Torbay Airport. A meteor was seen simultaneously at Argentina by Ground Control Intercept personnel west of their station. An F-9 fighter aircraft was sighted overhead at the same time. A C-47 with the call sign 139K was also in the area. A flight plan check showed a possible correlation. The dropped green flare proceeded north 12 miles, then returned heading south and faded on radar at 15 miles. The Air Force concluded the object was probably a meteor seen simultaneously at Argentina, though the initial assumption treated it as a green flare from an unidentified aircraft.

Reported location

Pepperrell AFB, Newfoundland, September 1953

Date of incident

September 1953

State / country

? / XX

Page count

3 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 19

Original case file scans

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1. DATE - TIME GROUP
4 September 53 4/2355Z

3. LOCATION
Pepperrell AFB, Newfoundland

3. SOURCE
[illegible]

10. CONCLUSION
Unidentified (FILED)
[illegible] Pepperrell as a green flare/Unid Acft at Torbay Airfield and s/o over Torbay Airport. Later evaluation shows [illegible] was meteor seen simultaneously as reported by GCI.

4. NUMBER OF OBJECTS
One

11. BRIEF SUMMARY AND ANALYSIS
Unidentified green object observed to have descended behind hills near Pepperrell and [illegible] at Torbay over Torbay Airport. Later evaluation shows that a [illegible] at 1000 ft.

5. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION
[illegible]

6. TYPE OF OBSERVATION
Visual

7. COURSE
[illegible]

8. PHOTOS
Yes
No

9. PHYSICAL EVIDENCE
Yes
No

FTD SEP [illegible]

Pepperrell AFB, Nfld. rocket, flare, or meteor

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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28956253