October 7, 2026

GCA radar

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Illustration of a Beechcraft Bonanza over Cuban sugar-cane fields as a polished disc with a blue flame passes its wing, October 31, 1950
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1950: Camaguey, Cuba — Four Men in a Bonanza and a Polished Disc Trailing a Blue Flame

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1950-style photo of workers at a power plant watching a bright silver disc over Pine Bluff, Arkansas
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1950: Pine Bluff, Arkansas — Six Witnesses and a Bright Silver Disc

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1950-style photo of two RAF Meteor jets climbing toward two parallel contrails over the North Sea near Cromer
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1950: North of Cromer, England — Two Meteors, Two Contrails, No Aircraft

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1950-style two-panel photo of a GCA radar scope with a blip and fishermen watching a dark round object over the water at Newfoundland
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1950: Ernest Harmon AFB, Newfoundland — A Radar Blip, a Barrel and a Shooting

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