Ill Fated Cuban Mig UFO intercept of 1967

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Ill Fated Cuban Mig UFO intercept of 1967…
September 26, 2010 at 5:19pm
Location. NE of Cuba

 

Date: March 1967 Time: daytime
The 6947th Security squadron’s mission was to monitor all Cuban Air Force communications and radar transmissions. One hundred of the squadron’s men were assigned to Detachment “A” located at Key West Naval Air Station. This forward base against attack from Cuba was on Boca Chica Key, a tropical island in the Florida Keys, east of Key West and about 97 miles from the nearest Cuban coastline. Several of these units were scattered geographically to enable direction-finding equipment to locate fixed or mobile land-based radar sites and communications centers and to plot aircraft movements from flight transmissions. One day in March 1967, the Spanish-speaking intercept operators of Detachment “A” heard Cuban air defense radar controllers report an unidentified “bogey” approaching Cuba from the northeast. The UFO entered Cuban air space at a height of about 10,000 meters and sped off at nearly Mach 1 (nearly 660mph). Two Cuban Mig-21 jet fighters were scrambled to meet it. The jets were guided to within five km of the UFO by Cuban ground control intercept radar personnel. The flight leader radioed that the object was a bright metallic sphere with no visible markings or appendages. When a try at radio contact failed, Cuban air defense headquarters ordered the flight leader to arm his weapons and destroy the object. The leader reported his radar was locked onto the bogey and his missiles were armed. Seconds later, the wingman screamed to the ground controller that his leader’s jet had exploded. When he gained his composure, the wingman radioed there was no smoke or flame that his leader’s Mig-21 had disintegrated. Cuban radar then reported the UFO quickly accelerated and climbed above 30,000 meters. At last report, it was heading south-southeast towards South America. Intelligence Spot Report was sent to NSA headquarters.
 

 

HC addendum
Source: Barry Greenwood & Lawrence Fawcett
http://www.nicap.dabsol.co.uk/cuban1.htm