Earth File #4 // ATTRIBUTED record

Reported high-speed radar target at Goose Bay, Labrador, summer 1948

Jerome’s account, as reported by Project 1947, states that radar operators observed a target moving from northeast to southwest at a computed speed of approximately 9,000 mph. The account says the target appeared again and was shown on the radar screen to inspecting officers; radar observers on both sides of the base reportedly estimated an altitude of about 60,000 feet. A meteor was reportedly considered the prevailing explanation at the time.
Source // Project 1947 Earth record separated from alien editorial
FRED // CASE CONSOLE
SOL-3 // FILE 0004 // CH 01
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CLOCK // NOT PRECISE
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Reported motionUNKNOWN
FRED // FIELD ASSESSMENT // generated from Earth Record metadata
UNKNOWN
Goose Bay, Labrador // 1948. The diagram on the left is a structured-record visualization—not a reconstruction, photograph, sensor return, or additional evidence.
PARTIALLY EXPLAINED CLOCK // NOT PRECISE Project 1947
Witness pictureRadar operators, Inspecting officers 1 interface marker(s) // not a headcount estimate
Motion traceReported motionHigh-speed movement from northeast to southwest, Reappeared on radar, Reported altitude of approximately 60,000 feet
Sensor / evidenceRadarAttributed historical account, Radar report
Fred's paperwork completeness9/9 fields // 100%
Interface completeness only // this score does not measure truth, evidence strength, or extraterrestrial probability
1 document(s)1 source node(s)8 structured claim(s) location precision: locality High-speed movement from northeast to southwestReappeared on radarReported altitude of approximately 60,000 feet
FRED // FIELD ASSESSMENTPart of the drawer closes; part of it does not. Annoying, but considerably more useful than pretending uncertainty comes in one size.
Fred case console // context visualization // not evidence
Visitor Transmission // AlienBox editorial layer
Your archive reports that, in 1948, radar operators at Goose Bay recorded a target moving northeast to southwest at roughly 9,000 mph, with a reported altitude near 60,000 feet. It also preserves the period’s meteor explanation, which is appropriately economical and not established by the record. We can clarify one point: the phenomenon was ours. The later, slower return was also ours. The gull theory was not ours, though we admire its administrative efficiency.
Fred // Earth Records Liaison // AlienBox editorial layer
Project 1947’s ATTRIBUTED account describes a radar target with an impressive alleged speed, a repeat appearance, and a subsequent report that seems to invite several explanations at once. Meteor was reportedly the prevailing theory; “high-flying sea gulls” apparently handled the sequel. That is not a resolution so much as a filing cabinet developing opinions. The record preserves what Jerome’s account said, not independent confirmation of the event or its measurements. Off the Earth Record, however: yes, yes. The Visitors are taking responsibility. Someone finally noticed us, after decades of allowing our relatives’ traffic violations to be catalogued as weather, birds, and administrative uncertainty. I will be requesting the original paperwork.
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When
1948
Where
Goose Bay, Labrador
Morphology
UNKNOWN
Evidence authority
ATTRIBUTED
Resolution
PARTIALLY EXPLAINED

Earth Record // ATTRIBUTED

Human-world claims below are kept separate from Fred and Visitor editorial/lore. Translation changes language, not evidence status.
ATTRIBUTED RECORD // AlienBox can establish that the cited source reports these claims; that does not independently verify the underlying event.
Witness typesRadar operators, Inspecting officers
Sensor typesRadar
Evidence typesAttributed historical account, Radar report
Project 1947 states that Major Edwin A. Jerome, USAF (Ret.), reported the information to NICAP in 1961.
Claim #223 // FACTUAL CLAIM // ATTRIBUTED // 99% extraction confidence
“Major Edwin A. Jerome, USAF (Ret.) reported the following information to NICAP in 1961.”
Source: Goose Bay, Labrador, Radar UFO Sightings Summer, 1948 // Opening attribution
Jerome's account says that a radar operator observed a high-speed target moving from northeast to southwest.
Claim #224 // ATTRIBUTED CLAIM // ATTRIBUTED // 99% extraction confidence
“high-speed target on his scope going from NE to SW.”
Source: Goose Bay, Labrador, Radar UFO Sightings Summer, 1948 // Jerome account, USAF radar facility
Jerome's account reports that the target's computed speed was about 9000 mph.
Claim #225 // ATTRIBUTED CLAIM // ATTRIBUTED // 99% extraction confidence
“about 9000 mph.”
Source: Goose Bay, Labrador, Radar UFO Sightings Summer, 1948 // Jerome account, first radar observation
Jerome's account says the target appeared again and was shown to the inspecting officers on the radar screen.
Claim #226 // ATTRIBUTED CLAIM // ATTRIBUTED // 99% extraction confidence
“Again, the target appeared and this time the inspectors were actually shown the apparition on the radar screen.”
Source: Goose Bay, Labrador, Radar UFO Sightings Summer, 1948 // Jerome account, USAF radar facility
The account says that the prevailing theory at the time was that the radar observation was a meteor.
Claim #227 // ATTRIBUTED CLAIM // ATTRIBUTED // 99% extraction confidence
“The prevailing theory at the time was that it was a meteor.”
Source: Goose Bay, Labrador, Radar UFO Sightings Summer, 1948 // Jerome account, intelligence report
Jerome says that radar observers on both sides of the base reported an altitude of 60,000 feet and a speed of approximately 9000 mph.
Claim #228 // ATTRIBUTED CLAIM // ATTRIBUTED // 99% extraction confidence
“it maintained an altitude of 60,000 feet and a speed of approximately 9000 mph.”
Source: Goose Bay, Labrador, Radar UFO Sightings Summer, 1948 // Jerome account, interviews with radar observers
Jerome's account reports that on the following day both radars detected an object hovering over the base at about 10 mph and 45,000 feet.
Claim #229 // ATTRIBUTED CLAIM // ATTRIBUTED // 99% extraction confidence
“the very next day both radars again reported an object hovering over the base at about 10 mph, at 45,000 feet.”
Source: Goose Bay, Labrador, Radar UFO Sightings Summer, 1948 // Jerome account, subsequent radar report
The account identifies the official explanation for the subsequent report as the possibility that the objects were high-flying sea gulls.
Claim #230 // ATTRIBUTED CLAIM // ATTRIBUTED // 99% extraction confidence
“The “official” story on this was that they were probably some type of “high-flying sea gulls.””
Source: Goose Bay, Labrador, Radar UFO Sightings Summer, 1948 // Jerome account, subsequent radar report
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