West Freugh radar incident

Radar at West Freugh tracked a very large target hanging almost stationary at about 50,000 ft over the Irish Sea for ten minutes. It then rose vertically to about 70,000 ft and moved off. A second radar at Ardwell tracked it too. Operators said it made a turn no aircraft could make and gave an echo bigger than a normal aircraft, like a ship.

What was seen

Shape: Radar echo "as large as a ship"
Witnesses: Radar operators at West Freugh and Ardwell
Duration: About 30 minutes

Sources

• The National Archives (UK) — MoD UFO files
• Wikipedia — UFO sightings in the United Kingdom

Browse

• United Kingdom
• 1950s
• Unresolved
• Radar-visual cases
• Official government documents
• Military witnesses
• Radar tracking

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• Lakenheath–Bentwaters radar-visual case 13 August 1956
• Little Rissington Meteor encounter 21 October 1952
• The Nowra Sea Fury — two lights on the radar 31 August 1954
• Milton Torres — ordered to fire on a UFO 20 May 1957