Case Evidence · CE-161
Fourth Air Force diary notes repeated radar bogie reports and consideration of night fighters at Naval Air Station Pasco.
Documented1945-01-25 · Contemporaneous military memorandum (reproduced)
Record
- Date / period
- 1945-01-25
- Reported event / document
- Fourth Air Force diary notes repeated radar bogie reports and consideration of night fighters at Naval Air Station Pasco.
- Evidence type
- Contemporaneous military memorandum (reproduced)
- Original data accessible?
- Reproductions online; original NARA scan not independently examined
- Verification status
- Documented air-defense concern; no extraordinary flight data in diary
- Competing explanations / missing data
- Radar false returns and unidentified conventional aircraft
- Next step
- Cross-check Navy and Western Defense Command records
- Source ID
- SRC-140
Why this grade
Documented From Case Evidence's Verification status ("Documented air-defense concern; no extraordinary flight data in diary"). Grade rules.