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Air Intelligence Information Report, Saudi Arabia, 1957

DOW-UAP-D155 · Release 07 (10/23)
AgencyDepartment of War
Document typePDF
LocationSaudi Arabia (Other)
Incident date1/18/57
ReleaseRelease 07 (10/23)
Evidence tierTier 2 · Documented firsthand report

What the document says

This document is an Air Intelligence Information Report (AIIR), a standardized U.S. Air Force reporting form used to record raw information of potential intelligence value for later analysis. The form served as a primary vehicle for U.S. Air Force field intelligence collection throughout the early Cold War, until defense-wide reporting standards were established in the early 1960s. This AIIR records a January 18, 1957, incident over Saudi Arabia in which the crew of a U.S. Air Force B-52 aircraft reported detecting an unidentified return on the aircraft’s gunnery scope for approximately five to seven minutes. The report characterizes the unidentified return as smaller than one produced by another B-52 operating in the area. All descriptive and estimative language contained in this report reflects the reporter’s subjective interpretation at the time of the event. Such characterizations should not be interpreted as a conclusive indication of the presence or absence of any intrinsic object features or performance characteristics.
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• • •• AF FORM 112-PART I (CLA.SSIFICATION) APPROY£D ! JUNE 194a COUNTRY REPORT NO. (Ll!.:AVE BLANK) ' -1-57 AIR INTELLIGENCE INFORMATION REPORT SUBJECT -port or Unidontitied Airoraf't Sightin:_. 1071aG7 AREA REPORTED ON FROM (Agtncv) c.udi . rabin ? d Bombtu-cb:!ent 'in ( ,. , ~ch AFB, Ca.lit. I DATE OF REPORT DATE OF INFORMATION IEVALUATION 15) Janum-:y 195? 18 Jw uo.r., L157 iJ • 2 I PREPARED BY ( Officer) SOURCE Capt Alva ~th vrc 1 , B-62 Airere.ft Nuro.bcr 394 I REFERENCES } Omtrol number, directive, pru ious report, etc., a, applicable) ./A SUMMARY: (Enter concise aummarv of report. Give significance infinal one-sentena paragraph. Lm lnclosure, at lower left. Begin text of report on AF Form I It-Part II.) D• 52 uircra.i't numb r 394 tran Castle AFB, Cali:f'ornio., CO'll:!Dlnded by Lt/Col J .n. orris, ot ths 328th Boobn.rdment quadron, 93d Dambnrdmox:tt ing (ll) , 1!18.de radar contact it."1 an unidentified aircrD.ft bile part1cipatin,z :Lu Strategic Air Cam:mnd mission "Operation Po:tertlie,itn . Coordinates at tir.Jo of oonte.ct; 27 north - 47 OQ.St {appro:x:imately) . Speed o£ e.ircrnt't: (E-52) at ccnto.ct; 842 knots per hour . Altitudo; 39.000 feat. Visibility; night. Duration or contact; fiw (6) to seven (7) minutes . (e.pproxi tely) . Coll position of 1B• 52 nild.ng emtact; coll ien.dcr. Ca.11 sicn, 0£ 'B•52; Rmmer 11. Gunner's nn.ma; l!/stt C.E. &.llslJ• Just prior to mo.king rendesvous i th tanker a.1rcra.tt B•52 aircra.£t nu:mber 394 picked up an unidentified eircra.f't on tlle A• 3A gunnery scope • Tho return or the unidentified aircraft remi~d o.t t..'\ia 6000 yard tm"ker (center) of the scope for approxinntoly five (5) to seven (7) minutes after hich. the Il•52 made a bank to the left, nnd the lmidentified o.ircraft return disappeared ott the soop0 to the left. 'fhe disappear-an.co may htl:\l'e been oauaed by the chance in direction of the B- 52; !hCJ.'lever the unidentified aircraft ee.e->--ed t;o disappear in the direction or tho Baghdad Flicb,t Identification Region. Tho ttnidonti:fied c.ircrnf"t gave c. smaller return on t...~e scope than a sinuU;nniously rev-eived return produced by a second D• 52 ctiroraf't riditig at the 5000 yard 100.rker 0£ the scope. Significance I The unidentified aircraft apponrod on the scope ore no aircraft ore expect.ad. •,I w I jor, tr'~ Asst Chief Intclli&once vision l INCLS. X O!STRIBUTK)N BY ORIGINATOR l cy q 16th AF• l cy liq SAC, 1 cy 93d Bo:ib ,g. l ey llq USAF• NOTE: THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTI NG THE NATIONAL DEFENSE OF THE UNITED STATES WITHIN THE MEAN ING OFTHE ESPIONAGE ACT. 50 U. S. C.­ 31 AND 32. AS AMENDED. ITS T RANSMISSION OR THE REVELATION OF ITS CONTENTS IN ANY MANNER TO AN UNAUTHORIZED PERSON IS PROHIBITED BY LAW. IT MAY NOT BE REPRODUCED IN WHOLE OR IN PART, BY OTHER THAN UNITED STATES AIR FORCE AGENCIES. EXCEPT BY PERMISSION OF THE DIRECTOR OF INTELLIGENCE, USAF. I;; 1J0161 0, (CLA.SSIFICATION) 16--55569-1 u. $ , GOVERNMENT PRINTING or,1cE SEORET AF FORM 112-PART II (CLASSIFICATION) APPROVED I JUNE 1948 AIR INTELLIGENCE INFORMATION REPORT FROM (Ao~) 2at REPORT NO. PAGE OF PAGES A-3A GUNNERY SCOPE PRESENTA TION B- 5 2 ACFT. NUMBER 394 8,000-t--------+---------------+------~ 7,000 ­ ~-------+-------------+--------1 oft COl)C 6,000 - t-------+-------­- ~-----+------~ in diret..1:.ia: --­ ot ( :ller rotum. than tll . 1111cht Inda rod by :>2J Uics.tion ~on 5,000 - t--------+--------------t--------1 4,000 ­ t--------t-------------+-----­~ m.ip produced 13 00 lJ. io C¢il ~ 2,000 ­ r-----~----t--------------t--------t 1,000-'t'--------t-------­-­----+--------t t:.­ NOTE: THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE OF THE UNITED STATES WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE ESPIONAGE ACT, 50 U.S. C.­ 31 AND 32. AS AMENDED. ITS TRANSMISSION OR THE REVELATION OF ITS CONTENTS IN ANY MANNER TO AN UNAUTHORIZED PERSON IS PROHIBITED BY LAW. IT MAY NOT BE REPRODUCED IN WHOLE OR IN PART, BY OTHER THAN UNITED STATES AIR FORCE AGENCIES, EXCEPT BY PERMISSION OF THE DIRECTOR OF INTELLIGENCE, USAF. lj 00161 SECRET (CLASSIFICATION) IG- 66670-1 * U, 8, Ci.O'IIU:NMEHT PRINTIK/i OP'P'ICS SEG(.ET AF FORM 112-PART I (CLASSIFICATION) APPROVED I JUNC 1948 COUNTRY • • IREPORT NO. (LEAVE BLANK) AIR INTELLIGENCE INFORMATION REPORT SUBJECT AREA REPORTED ON IFROM (AQfflCI/) OAT!c Of l'U':PORT IDAl£ OF INFORMATION PREPARED BY ( OQicer) ISOURCE • REFERENCE;S (P,ntrvl number, <llrecU•t, prn;lllU$ rtport, etc., cu applicable) SUM MARY: (Enter condse summar11 ofreport. Oive tignificattce in frnal onNentence paragraph. List inclon.re, at lower left. Begin text of report on AF Form //!-Part I J.) d cm :V1Jrian ____1,.___ JNCLS. 1 of 2 NOTE: THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECT I NG THE NATIONAL DEFENSE OF THE UNITED STATES WITH IN THE MEAN I NG OF THE ESPIONAGE ACT, SO U. S. C.­ 31 AND 32, AS AMENDED. ITS TRANSMISSION OR THE REVELATION OF ITS CONTENTS IN ANY MANNER TO AN UNAUTHORIZED PERSON IS PROHIBITED BY LAW. IT MAY NOT BE REPRODUCED IN WHOLE OR IN PART. BY OTHER THAN UNITED STATES AIR FORCE AGENCIES. EXCEPT BY PERMISSION OF THE DIRECTOR OF INTELLIGENCE, USAF. SECRET i 00161 (CLA~IFIC:ATION) le--.5U0i>-1 "· G, 40VDIHMCHT r l lNTllfO orr1cc SEORET AF FOI\M 112-PART II (CLASSlFICATION) APPROVED 1 JUNE 1948 AIR INTELLIGENCE INFORMATION REPORT Z?d REPORT NO. 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Context

This is one of 282 Department of War records in the declassified archive, reported in the Other region. It was published in Release 07 (10/23).

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