 RADCAT Case Directory Category 9, RADAR Preliminary Rating: 5 |
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Guam
Radar Incidents
Summer 1945
Guam, Western Pacific
Summer 1945
Guam, Western Pacific
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Ridge: 1945; near Okinawa, Guam. Shipboard (ground) radar. No details. (NICAP DBase) This is all we had at the outset, but the source of the report has not been possitively identified. Martin Shough: Nr. Guam, Western Pacific
PRECIS: A US Navy radar officer who requested anonymity recalled several incidents of unexplained radar returns on his vessel's air search radar in the area between Guam and Saipan during the summer of 1945. Typically they appeared as "large groups" of echoes detected at about 100 miles range on courses inbound towards the ship. Plotted speeds were over 1000 mph. The targets "passed overhead at approximately two thousand feet and showed up on the radar screen as definitely solid objects." Visual lookouts on alert deckside saw nothing, and the radar officer himself on one occasion went on deck to search the sky, but he too saw nothing. He was adamant that the targets were not due to "ionized clouds, inversions, sea gulls, mechanical defects, or any of the other common explanations." The equipment was carefully checked and found to be functioning properly. Detailed reports and documents Comments/45XXXXguam_shough.htm - Martin Shough |