USAF Lieutenant H. H. Speer pilot of KC-97 Archie 29, and the pilot of KC-97 Archie 91, both at 20,000 feet on a refueling mission out of Harmon AFB, saw two bright objects at 49°10' north, 59°50' west, at 20,000 feet appearing stationary. They reported sighting to Harmon at 3:05, made contact with radar site, USAF Air Defense Command site N-23 (Air Defense Direction Center, 640th AC&W Squadron, Harmon AFB, Stephenville, Newf, CPS-6B search and height-finder radar, TPS-502 backup height-finder, at 48°35.3' north, 58°40' W). Radar painted object at 3:07 with intermittent contact till 3:56 (also four to five additional objects). Archie 29 KC-97 in best position to close on object ordered to do so by Harmon, position 290° from radar site at about 80 miles, ten o'clock to KC-97 (inconsistent with lat-long coordinates). On approach objects started moving to northeast at 50° true heading accelerating to 275 knots (300 mph) faster than Archie 29 KC-97. Pilot Lieutenant Speer of Archie 29 maintained visual contact with object calling direction changes of object to radar site by radio, changes correlated exactly with those painted on scope by controller. Object began climbing at 3:38 a.m. and fighters scrambled, no radar or visual contact made. Speer lost sight of object at about 40,000-50,000 feet. Radar then tracked object accelerating to 1,600 knots (1,800 mph) moving off to northeast . At same times radar also painted five smaller objects 5,000-10,000 feet below the KC-97's at 30° true (heading??), 60 miles from radar, (inconsistent with other coordinates) moving very fast, changing direction and azimuth, jumping on and off scopes, forming circular pattern, changing to line abreast, traveling 10-20 miles then changing direction, speed 1,500+ knots (1,700+ mph). Radar tracked about four objects at point of initial sighting on 40° true heading, speed 300 knots (350 mph). Objects at 3:40 a.m. at 50°10' N, 57°50' W. One C-119 aircraft en route from Goose Bay passed within 5 miles of the objects, not known if seen.

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