Osceola, Wisconsin: ADC radar tracks many targets, F-51 pilots chase lights

At 1:30 a.m., an Air Defense Command radar outside Osceola, Wisconsin, picked up unidentified targets. Four F-51s from St. Paul, Minnesota, were scrambled, but the targets moved so quickly that it was impossible to vector the aircraft onto a single one. The pilots saw many lights; one pilot at 25,000 feet saw an object blaze across the nose of his airplane. Two other pilots tried in vain to climb to a hovering light at the position of the radar targets. ATIC's Robert M. Olsson and Wendell Swanson explained the radar returns as a temperature inversion and the visual sighting as a meteor. 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.