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Bonjour, il serait intéressant de mener une enquête sur ce cas qui reste inexpliqué (sauf erreur de ma part). Malheureusement les informations sur ce dossier n'ont pas l'air d'être bien nombreuses.
Le cas de Carson Sink est un "classique" des observations d'ovni, principalement grâce à la personnalité des deux témoins (experts en aéronautique de l'US Air Force). Ce cas fut enregistré par le Projet Blue Book sous le n° 1584 et rangé dans la catégorie "inconnu".
Voila le peu d'information que donne wikipedia:
Le 7 juillet 1952, le Lieutenant Colonel John L. McGinn et le Lieutenant Colonel John R. Barton décollèrent du terrain d'Hamilton. Ils étaient aux commandes d'un B-25 et devaient rejoindre Colorado Springs sous une météo claire et dégagée. À 15h40, alors qu'ils survolaient la région de Carson Sink (Nevada), ils apercurent une formation de trois appareils en avant d'eux et légèrement sur leur droite. Ils pensèrent d'abord qu'il s'agissait de trois chasseurs F-86, même si l'altitude leur sembla un peu basse pour ce type d'appareil. En se rapprochant de la formation, Mcginn et Barton durent revoir leur jugement : il s'agissait de 3 objets argentés, de forme triangulaire, sans verrière ni dérive. La seule marque extérieure était une espèce d'arête partant du nez vers la queue. Au bout de quelques secondes d'observation, les trois objets virèrent sur la gauche, passèrent à ras du cockpit du B-25 (entre 300 et 700 mètres selon les deux témoins) et disparurent de leur champ de vision à une vitesse folle (vitesse estimée à plus 3 000 km/h par les deux témoins). Une fois posés à Colorado Springs, les deux pilotes contactèrent le QG de l'Air Defence Command, qui leur confirma qu'aucun appareil civil ou militaire n'avait été détecté à leur proximité durant le survol de Carson Sink.
Arguments ufologiques:
- Le Projet Blue Book enregistra le cas et mena sa propre contre-enquête : les plans de vol militaires et civils de tout le territoire américain ainsi que tous les programmes de lâchers de ballons météorologiques du 24 juillet 1952 furent analysés mais rien ne put correspondre (même de loin) à l'observation des deux pilotes.
- La personnalité même des deux témoins (experts en aéronautique auprès du Pentagone et pilotes chevronnés totalisant plusieurs milliers d'heures de vol) permet d'éliminer formellement la thèse d'une méprise avec des appareils d'origine civile ou militaire.
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cas_de_Carson_Sink
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Quand dit le rapport d'Edward J. Ruppelt?
Edward J. Ruppelt version:
"Here is a "good" UFO report with an "unknown" conclusion:
On July 24, 1952, two Air Force colonels, flying a B-25, took off from Hamilton Air Force Base, near San Francisco, for Colorado Springs. The day was clear; not a cloud in the sky.
The colonels had crossed the Sierra Nevada between Sacramento and Reno and were flying east at 11,000 feet on "Green 3," the aerial highway. At 3:40 P.M., they were over the Carson Sink area of Nevada when one of the colonels noticed three objects ahead of them and a little to the right. The objects looked like three F-86's flying a tight V formation. If they were F-86's the should have been lower, according to civil air regulations, but on a clear day some pilots don't watch their altitude too closely.
In a matter of seconds the three aircraft were close enough to the B-25 to be clearly seen. They were not F-86's. They were three bright silver, delta wing craft with no tails and no pilot's canopies. The only thing that broke the sharply defined, clean upper surface of the triangular wing was a definite ridge that ran from the nose to the tail.
In another second the three deltas made a slight left bank and shot by the B-25 at terrific speed. The colonels estimated that the speed was at least three times that of an F-86. They got a good look at the three deltas as the unusual craft passed within 400 to 800 years of the B-25.
When they landed at Colorado Springs, the two colonels called the intelligence people at Air Defense Command Headquarters to make a UFO report. The suggestion was offered that they might have seen three F-86's. The colonels promptly replied that if the objects had been F-86's they would have been able to recognize them as such. They colonels knew what F-86's looked like.
Air Defense Command relayed the report to Project Blue Book. An investigation was started at once.
Flight Service, which clears all military aircraft flights, was contacted and asked about the location of aircraft near the Carson Sink area at 3:40 PM. They had no record of the presence of aircraft in that area.
Since the colonels had mentioned delta wing aircraft, and both the Air Force and the Navy had a few of this type, we double-checked. The Navy's delta's were all on the east coast, at least all of the silver ones were. A few deltas painted the traditional navy blue were on the west coast, but not near Carson Sink. The Air Force's one delta was temporarily grounded.
Since balloons once in a while can appear to have an odd shape, all balloon flights were checked for both standard weather balloons and the big 100'-diameter research balloons. Nothing was found.
A quick check on the two colonels revealed that both of them were command pilots and that each had several thousand hours of flying time. They were stationed at the Pentagon. Their highly classified assignments were such that they would be in a position to recognize anything that the United States known to be flying anywhere in the world.
Both men had friends who had "seen flying saucers" at some time, but both had openly voiced their skepticism. Now, from what the colonels said when they were interviewed after landing at Colorado Springs, they had changed their opinions."
(Source: Michael David Hall, "UFOs, A Century of Sightings", Page 187 & Captain Edward J. Ruppelt's, Report on Unidentified Flying Objects, Page 10).
http://www.nicap.org/reports/520724carsonsink_report2.htm
Quelqu'un aurait-il plus information sur cette affaire?
Le cas de Carson Sink est un "classique" des observations d'ovni, principalement grâce à la personnalité des deux témoins (experts en aéronautique de l'US Air Force). Ce cas fut enregistré par le Projet Blue Book sous le n° 1584 et rangé dans la catégorie "inconnu".
Voila le peu d'information que donne wikipedia:
Le 7 juillet 1952, le Lieutenant Colonel John L. McGinn et le Lieutenant Colonel John R. Barton décollèrent du terrain d'Hamilton. Ils étaient aux commandes d'un B-25 et devaient rejoindre Colorado Springs sous une météo claire et dégagée. À 15h40, alors qu'ils survolaient la région de Carson Sink (Nevada), ils apercurent une formation de trois appareils en avant d'eux et légèrement sur leur droite. Ils pensèrent d'abord qu'il s'agissait de trois chasseurs F-86, même si l'altitude leur sembla un peu basse pour ce type d'appareil. En se rapprochant de la formation, Mcginn et Barton durent revoir leur jugement : il s'agissait de 3 objets argentés, de forme triangulaire, sans verrière ni dérive. La seule marque extérieure était une espèce d'arête partant du nez vers la queue. Au bout de quelques secondes d'observation, les trois objets virèrent sur la gauche, passèrent à ras du cockpit du B-25 (entre 300 et 700 mètres selon les deux témoins) et disparurent de leur champ de vision à une vitesse folle (vitesse estimée à plus 3 000 km/h par les deux témoins). Une fois posés à Colorado Springs, les deux pilotes contactèrent le QG de l'Air Defence Command, qui leur confirma qu'aucun appareil civil ou militaire n'avait été détecté à leur proximité durant le survol de Carson Sink.
Arguments ufologiques:
- Le Projet Blue Book enregistra le cas et mena sa propre contre-enquête : les plans de vol militaires et civils de tout le territoire américain ainsi que tous les programmes de lâchers de ballons météorologiques du 24 juillet 1952 furent analysés mais rien ne put correspondre (même de loin) à l'observation des deux pilotes.
- La personnalité même des deux témoins (experts en aéronautique auprès du Pentagone et pilotes chevronnés totalisant plusieurs milliers d'heures de vol) permet d'éliminer formellement la thèse d'une méprise avec des appareils d'origine civile ou militaire.
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cas_de_Carson_Sink
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Quand dit le rapport d'Edward J. Ruppelt?
Edward J. Ruppelt version:
"Here is a "good" UFO report with an "unknown" conclusion:
On July 24, 1952, two Air Force colonels, flying a B-25, took off from Hamilton Air Force Base, near San Francisco, for Colorado Springs. The day was clear; not a cloud in the sky.
The colonels had crossed the Sierra Nevada between Sacramento and Reno and were flying east at 11,000 feet on "Green 3," the aerial highway. At 3:40 P.M., they were over the Carson Sink area of Nevada when one of the colonels noticed three objects ahead of them and a little to the right. The objects looked like three F-86's flying a tight V formation. If they were F-86's the should have been lower, according to civil air regulations, but on a clear day some pilots don't watch their altitude too closely.
In a matter of seconds the three aircraft were close enough to the B-25 to be clearly seen. They were not F-86's. They were three bright silver, delta wing craft with no tails and no pilot's canopies. The only thing that broke the sharply defined, clean upper surface of the triangular wing was a definite ridge that ran from the nose to the tail.
In another second the three deltas made a slight left bank and shot by the B-25 at terrific speed. The colonels estimated that the speed was at least three times that of an F-86. They got a good look at the three deltas as the unusual craft passed within 400 to 800 years of the B-25.
When they landed at Colorado Springs, the two colonels called the intelligence people at Air Defense Command Headquarters to make a UFO report. The suggestion was offered that they might have seen three F-86's. The colonels promptly replied that if the objects had been F-86's they would have been able to recognize them as such. They colonels knew what F-86's looked like.
Air Defense Command relayed the report to Project Blue Book. An investigation was started at once.
Flight Service, which clears all military aircraft flights, was contacted and asked about the location of aircraft near the Carson Sink area at 3:40 PM. They had no record of the presence of aircraft in that area.
Since the colonels had mentioned delta wing aircraft, and both the Air Force and the Navy had a few of this type, we double-checked. The Navy's delta's were all on the east coast, at least all of the silver ones were. A few deltas painted the traditional navy blue were on the west coast, but not near Carson Sink. The Air Force's one delta was temporarily grounded.
Since balloons once in a while can appear to have an odd shape, all balloon flights were checked for both standard weather balloons and the big 100'-diameter research balloons. Nothing was found.
A quick check on the two colonels revealed that both of them were command pilots and that each had several thousand hours of flying time. They were stationed at the Pentagon. Their highly classified assignments were such that they would be in a position to recognize anything that the United States known to be flying anywhere in the world.
Both men had friends who had "seen flying saucers" at some time, but both had openly voiced their skepticism. Now, from what the colonels said when they were interviewed after landing at Colorado Springs, they had changed their opinions."
(Source: Michael David Hall, "UFOs, A Century of Sightings", Page 187 & Captain Edward J. Ruppelt's, Report on Unidentified Flying Objects, Page 10).
http://www.nicap.org/reports/520724carsonsink_report2.htm
Quelqu'un aurait-il plus information sur cette affaire?
