Banks Island, Northwest Territories: RB-47 registers small rectangular radar contact
On June 7, 1955, at 5:50 p.m., an RB-47 en route to Eielson AFB, Alaska, registered a small rectangular electronic contact southeast of Banks Island, Northwest Territories, Canada.
Background
At 5:50 p.m. an RB-47 reconnaissance aircraft en route to Eielson AFB near Fairbanks, Alaska, registered an electronic contact southeast of Banks Island, Northwest Territories, Canada. The contact was at a range of 10,500 feet. The radar return was small and rectangular. The case belongs to a series of RB-47 contacts over the Canadian Arctic in June 1955 and is listed among Project Blue Book unknowns. 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.