Goose Bay, Labrador: GCA radar tracks slow unidentified object near airfield three times

Incident summary no. 188 reports a radar sighting of an unknown aircraft from AAF Goose Bay, Labrador. At 0812Z on 29 October 1948 an unidentified object appeared on the Ground Control Approach scope about two miles from the centre of the field on a bearing of 170 degrees, travelled about two miles at an estimated 25 to 30 mph and disappeared; no altitude could be determined. The GCA operator called in at 0819Z, when the object reappeared on a bearing of 080 degrees and moved slowly in a wide arc to 270 degrees before vanishing again, and at 0826Z it appeared once more east of the field about two miles out, in line with the runway, on a heading of 270 degrees; the summary notes the object was very clear on the GCA scope at all times and could have been at extremely low or extremely high altitude. A plot on the base map placed the first contact near the Hamilton River and the second in the immediate vicinity of Lake Melville and the dock area. The same file contains a further Goose Bay GCA report for 31 October 1948 (incident 195) witnessed by the GCA operator and senior officers of the Newfoundland Base Command. The details are taken from the records released by the U.S. Department of War (record code 38_143685_box7 Incident Summaries 173-233, incident 188, p. 36) and do not represent an independent determination by From Beyond Space.