Blue Book Unknown

Intelligence-dossier evidence board for the January 1950 Kodiak, Alaska radar-visual UFO case, showing a night scene over the dark waters off Kodiak Island with a Lockheed P2V-3 Neptune patrol aircraft in silhouette at altitude and the ocean tug USS Tillamook below on a black sea as a single fast red-orange ball of fire arcs across the sky between them, rendered in cold grainy 1950 night film stock with distant unidentifiable crew; a clipped inset shows a phosphor radar scope with a smeared high-speed contact and a redacted Office of Naval Intelligence memo, while restrained orange tactical HUD overlays mark the case as Classification RV radar-visual, multiple air-sea-ground witnesses, source the 1950 ONI/FBI memo, status Unexplained Blue Book Unknown.

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Alaska Sightings

1950: A major Air Force encounter with a UFO in Alaska

Published: August 28, 2013 | Updated: June 5, 2026

THINK ABOUTIT UFO | UAP SIGHTING REPORT 1950: The Kodiak, Alaska Radar-Visual — A Major Air Force/Navy UFO Encounter For two hours before dawn...