INCIDENT INTELLIGENCE / CASE FILE

Kuantan RMAF Airbase Radar Tracking

DATE OF INCIDENT

July 18, 1979

KEY WITNESSES

Royal Malaysian Air Force Radar Technicians and Base Security Patrols

Summary

RMAF air defense radar tracked an unidentified structured craft hovering over Kuantan Airbase airspace.

Detail report

Radar installations at RMAF Base Kuantan detected an unregistered airborne target entering controlled military airspace over Pahang. Ground security watch personnel visually confirmed a luminous metallic disc hovering motionless near the flight line. When alert crews prepared for scramble, the craft accelerated horizontally toward the South China Sea at supersonic speeds without generating a sonic boom.

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