Off Cape May, New Jersey: USS Dyess radar tracks hovering target that climbs to 100 miles
One night in March 1951, Operations Officer Robert Wood aboard the USS Dyess, about 125 miles southeast of Cape May, New Jersey, tracked a radar target that hovered 30 miles away for about 30 minutes, then sped north at 3,000 mph and climbed straight up to 100 miles altitude.
Background
At 11:30 p.m. one night in March 1951, Operations Officer Robert Wood aboard the USS Dyess, approximately 125 miles southeast of Cape May, New Jersey, picked up a radar target coming in from due east at 98–104 mph and an altitude of 3,000–4,000 feet. The target stopped and hovered about 30 miles away; Wood notified the bridge, and the captain ordered the ship to change course toward the object. About 30 minutes later it suddenly took off toward the north at 3,000 mph, reaching a point 35–40 miles south of Nantucket Island, Massachusetts, before it zoomed straight up. Altitude-determining radar tracked the object to an altitude of 100 miles. The account follows the entry in George M. Eberhart's chronology UFOs and Intelligence (CUFOS) and the sources cited there; it is not an independent determination by From Beyond Space.