bogeyman
7th January 2014, 14:25
Cuban Jets Incident
Details of the Cuban jets case have been obtained and pieced together
by CAUS, including a copy of the widely distributed security
specialist statement. The specialist was assigned to a unit of the
U.S. Air Force Security Service (AFSS), which was the 6947th Security
Squadron centered at Homestead air force base just south of Miami.. The
squadron mission is to monitor all Cuban Air Force communications and
radar transmissions.
One hundred of the squadron's men are assigned to Detachment A.
located at Key West Naval Air Station. This forward base against attack
from Cuba is on Chica Key a tropical island in the Florida Keys.
just east of Key West and about 97 miles from the nearest Cuban coastline,
to the south. Several such squadron units are 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. When the UFO
entered Cuban air space at a height of about 10,000 meters (about 33, 000
feet) and speed of nearly Mach 1 (nearly 660 mph). two MiG-21 jet fighters
were scrambled to meet it.
(MiG stands for Soviet aircraft designers Mikoyan and Gurevich.
The single-seat MiG-21UM E76 is the standard top-of-the-line fighter
supplied to Soviet bloc countries such as Cuba. It is capable of Mach
2.1, or 1)85 mph, in level flight, service ceiling of 59,000 feet, and
combat radius of more than 300 miles on internal fuel.)
The jets were guided to wi thin 5 kilometers (3 miles) of the UFO
by Cuban ground-controlled intercept radar personnel. The flight leader
radioed that the object was a bright metallic sphere with no visible
markings or appendages.
When radio contact failed, Cuban Air Derense Headquarters
ordered the flight leader to arm his weapons and destroy the object.
The leader reported his radar was locked on the bogey and his missiles
were armed. (Missiles probably were K-13A air-to-air types designated
by NATO.)
Seconds later the wingman screamed to the ground controller that
his leader's jet had exploded. When he regained 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 (above 98,000 reet). At last report it
was heading south-southeast towards South America.
An Intelligence Spot Report was sent to NSA headquarters, since
AFSS and its units are under NSA operational control. Such reports are
standard practice in cases or aircraf't losses by hostile nations. NSA
is required to acknowledge receipt or such reports, but the 6947th's
Detachment A did not get one; so it sent a follow up report.
Within hours Detachment A received orders to ship all tapes and
pertinent data to NSA and to list the Cuban aircraft loss in squadron
riles as due to nequipnent malfunction. At least 15 to 20 people in
the detachment were said to be fully informed of the incident.
Presumably, the data sent to NSA included direction-finding
measurements that NSA might later combine with other sites' data to
triangulate the location and altitude or the MiG-21 flight paths. If
the AFSS equipment in Florida was sensitive enough, the UFO could have
been tracked by its reflection or the Cuban ground and airborne radars.
There has been numerous cases like this but all are classified Top Secret.
Details of the Cuban jets case have been obtained and pieced together
by CAUS, including a copy of the widely distributed security
specialist statement. The specialist was assigned to a unit of the
U.S. Air Force Security Service (AFSS), which was the 6947th Security
Squadron centered at Homestead air force base just south of Miami.. The
squadron mission is to monitor all Cuban Air Force communications and
radar transmissions.
One hundred of the squadron's men are assigned to Detachment A.
located at Key West Naval Air Station. This forward base against attack
from Cuba is on Chica Key a tropical island in the Florida Keys.
just east of Key West and about 97 miles from the nearest Cuban coastline,
to the south. Several such squadron units are 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. When the UFO
entered Cuban air space at a height of about 10,000 meters (about 33, 000
feet) and speed of nearly Mach 1 (nearly 660 mph). two MiG-21 jet fighters
were scrambled to meet it.
(MiG stands for Soviet aircraft designers Mikoyan and Gurevich.
The single-seat MiG-21UM E76 is the standard top-of-the-line fighter
supplied to Soviet bloc countries such as Cuba. It is capable of Mach
2.1, or 1)85 mph, in level flight, service ceiling of 59,000 feet, and
combat radius of more than 300 miles on internal fuel.)
The jets were guided to wi thin 5 kilometers (3 miles) of the UFO
by Cuban ground-controlled intercept radar personnel. The flight leader
radioed that the object was a bright metallic sphere with no visible
markings or appendages.
When radio contact failed, Cuban Air Derense Headquarters
ordered the flight leader to arm his weapons and destroy the object.
The leader reported his radar was locked on the bogey and his missiles
were armed. (Missiles probably were K-13A air-to-air types designated
by NATO.)
Seconds later the wingman screamed to the ground controller that
his leader's jet had exploded. When he regained 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 (above 98,000 reet). At last report it
was heading south-southeast towards South America.
An Intelligence Spot Report was sent to NSA headquarters, since
AFSS and its units are under NSA operational control. Such reports are
standard practice in cases or aircraf't losses by hostile nations. NSA
is required to acknowledge receipt or such reports, but the 6947th's
Detachment A did not get one; so it sent a follow up report.
Within hours Detachment A received orders to ship all tapes and
pertinent data to NSA and to list the Cuban aircraft loss in squadron
riles as due to nequipnent malfunction. At least 15 to 20 people in
the detachment were said to be fully informed of the incident.
Presumably, the data sent to NSA included direction-finding
measurements that NSA might later combine with other sites' data to
triangulate the location and altitude or the MiG-21 flight paths. If
the AFSS equipment in Florida was sensitive enough, the UFO could have
been tracked by its reflection or the Cuban ground and airborne radars.
There has been numerous cases like this but all are classified Top Secret.