UFO Chased a US Military Plane - nearly 67 years ago

[Kornee]

A quite detailed rehashing of perhaps the best recorded US military UFO encounter(s). At least on a par with the far more recent 2004 Nimitz group tic-tac events:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJdhQaqmFaY
It was covered before here as part of a broader focus on James McDonald's excellent investigations:
https://www.scivillage.com/thread-12918.html

The kind of incident the 'Condon crew' so-called skeptics led by JR over at SF instinctively avoid. For what should be obvious reasons.
And for that matter hardly deserving of the timid 'I think something might have happened' attitude closer to home here.
Yeah - 'something happened' for sure. Typically mischievous antics 'decent' aliens would hardly be expected to engage in though.
Those not discounting a supernatural possibility will see a distinct parallel with more 'classic' poltergeist type activity.

[confused2]

About 40 years ago a friend gave this account:
Above a city in Hungary (probably Budapest) in about 1958 he saw a number of balls of light in the sky. The balls of light moved from point to point in the sky 'instantaneously' - there was a thin trail of vapour between the point of disappearance and reappearance. Everyone in the street was looking up watching this going on.

( Originally posted https://www.scivillage.com/thread-10419-...l#pid44033 )

The US plane event was in 1957 (about 1958!). Seems odd that similar (?) things are chasing (one) American plane and at about the same time giving public flying displays over Hungary.

[Kornee]

Ha ha ha ha. Here's possibly the best UFO reports database to play around with:
https://nuforc.org/subndx/?id=all
Of course most reports are far below the quality/verification level of the 1957 RB-47 recon-bomber incidents.
However the point is there is a huge number of them. Likely just a small fraction of the incidents never reported or humanly observed.
With distinct spikes, e.g. around the time of the now forgotten 1952 Washington flap incidents.
Which had massive multiple independent sightings/detections at the time. And a typical official dismissal as 'mistaken radar returns owing to temperature inversions' and such nonsense.