Boeing B-47 Stratojet
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Oct 5, 2026
Bill BirnesGUEST
Well, they are.
Bill BirnesGUEST
One of my favorite cases is the RB-47 case from 1957 when a UFO, and this case has been debunked and the debunkers keep falling short of the facts.
Bill BirnesGUEST
In fact, the debunking raises levels of implausibility to impossible heights.
Bill BirnesGUEST
Here's a case where an object, we don't know what it is, starts tracking the RB-47, which in 1947 was probably the high- the most sophisticated electronic counter-warfare plane in existence, with crews, and the radar guys were called scarecrows or ravens, that were the most highly trained in the Air Force.
Bill BirnesGUEST
So here is an event that is where the plane tracks it on its very sophisticated radar systems.
Bill BirnesGUEST
It's tracked from the ground, and it's tracked visually by the pilots in the cockpit, and that's an incredible, incr- and there are all kinds of reports on this thing.
Daven HiskeyHOST
Our story begins in the early 1950s.
Daven HiskeyHOST
For the first decade and a half of the Cold War, the primary means of delivering nuclear weapons to their targets was via manned strategic bombers, like the American Boeing B-47 Stratojet and the B-52 Stratofortress or the Soviet Tupolev Tu-95 Bear and Myasishchev M-4 Bison.
Daven HiskeyHOST
However, such aircraft were relatively slow and the distances between the United States and Soviet Union vast, meaning each side enjoyed hours of warning of an incoming attack and were able to build elaborate networks of early warning radars, interceptor aircraft, and surface-to-air missiles to defend their airspace.
Daven HiskeyHOST
Medium-range ballistic missiles, or MRBMs, like the American PGM-19 Jupiter and PGM-17A Thor were also developed, but these needed to be sited close to their targets, with the United States Air Force deploying the Jupiter in Turkey and Italy and the Thor in the UK.
Herman PoppleberryHOST
When it closes, nothing moves.
Herman PoppleberryHOST
The historical illustration of the stakes is the B-47 reconnaissance era in 1956 and 57.
Herman PoppleberryHOST
If weather closed tooly, the aircraft had to divert to England, Alaska, or Labrador.
Herman PoppleberryHOST
That's what a closed airfield means at that latitude.
Jon HagadornHOST
Some of the most notable UFO incidents since 1947 that you're aware of or that you've written about.
Stanton FriedmanGUEST
Well, I have talked about, other people have written about, the RB-47 case.
Stanton FriedmanGUEST
reconnaissance bomber encounters a UFO.
Stanton FriedmanGUEST
They pick it up on their radar.
Kevin RandleGUEST
And, and, and the sightings in Malmstrom Air Force Base in 1967 where they shut down the missile silos, and the Condon Committee was investigating that.
Kevin RandleGUEST
And interesting, the guy who was the UFO officer at Malmstrom, um, was a guy named Lewis, who was the pilot in command of the RB-47 sighting from 1957, which is kind of an interesting coincidence.
Kevin RandleGUEST
But, um, when the Condon Committee went to investigate, they said, "Well, you know, uh, we can't tell you.
Kevin RandleGUEST
It's classified." And the guy says, "Well, we have clearance." And he said, "No, this is national security." And it's because they were shutting down the missiles, and that's, that's the key right there.
MarkHOST
What? What? On this day, March 11th, 1958, a U.S.
MarkHOST
Air Force B-47 accidentally dropped a nuclear bomb near Mars Bluff, South Carolina.
MarkHOST
What? Yeah.
MarkHOST
The nuclear core did not detonate, but the bomb's conventional explosives went off, destroying a house and injuring members of the family.