Fort George G. Meade air-defense radar and missile command installations

Record

Type

Army / USAF air-defense radar and command installations

Period

1950-1979

Connection to CASE-001

None direct

Key participants

Air Defense Command; 770th Radar Squadron; 35th Antiaircraft Artillery Brigade

Status / qualification

Documented historical installation, not a UAP case: L-14 Lashup AN/CPS-6 radar Sept 1950-Feb 1952 (coverage transferred to Quantico P-55; date to verify); AN/GSG-2 experiment 1955; W-13DC Nike Missile Master (AN/FSG-1) Dec 1957; 770th Radar Squadron RP-54 from Oct 1 1961 (Z-227 from 1963), linked to SAGE DC-04; Missile Mentor AN/TSQ-51 from 1966; USAF radar operations ended Oct 1 1979. No site-specific UAP incident or authenticated UAP photograph identified; not to be assumed the source of July 1952 Washington returns.

Source ID

SRC-V99-017