Case file · Sighting
Kodiak radar contacts
Before dawn on 22 January 1950, a US Navy patrol plane from Naval Air Station Kodiak, Alaska, picked up fast radar targets near the island that the base's ground radar also tracked.
1950 CE · 57.75, -152.49 · status: account
The account
According to the station's own 1950 history and later catalogues, the pilot got a return that quickly disappeared, then another a few minutes later on a different bearing, with no known aircraft nearby. The case appears in Brad Sparks's catalogue of Blue Book 'unknowns' and in Loren Gross's history of the period.
The sceptical view
Sources differ on the time and even the date (22 or 23 January), and early radars were prone to false targets from weather and interference.