Cedar Breaks radar site crash claim
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| Date | 1966 |
|---|---|
| Topics | Crashes & retrievals (topic), Military encounters (topic), Bases & Area 51 (topic) |
| People | Linda Moulton Howe |
| Testimony | Shellenberger testimony, p. 69 |
| Year | 1966 in UFO history |
| Timeline | 1966 on the UAP Timeline |
| Sources | 3 |
Cedar Breaks radar site crash claim — A radar technician reportedly saw a disc crash at a Utah radar site linked to Area 51.
In September 2006, journalist Linda Moulton Howe reported on her Earthfiles website an account from a former radar technician who said he saw a disc crash at a radar site at Cedar Breaks in southern Utah in 1966. According to Howe's report, the radar facility was built and operated under the direction of Area 51, the secret Nevada test site.
The full account is behind a subscription paywall, and the technician's name hasn't been made public. Radar sites in Utah and Nevada did support classified flight testing at Area 51, where the U-2, A-12 and other secret aircraft were developed, and the Air Force has acknowledged that test flights there caused UFO reports.
No documents or other witnesses support the crash claim. It's best treated as an unverified single-source account.
People and topics

- Area 51 — The secret Nevada test site where spy planes and stealth aircraft were developed.
- Linda Moulton Howe — Journalist and filmmaker who runs the Earthfiles website and has reported many crash-retrieval claims.
- Earthfiles — Linda Moulton Howe's website.
- U.S. Air Force — The U.S. military service that ran the official UFO projects from 1947 to 1969.
- Unidentified flying object — An object in the sky that can't be identified; the older term for UAP.
On the Timeline
- Request for Vallée's best cases (1966) (23 July 1966) — Vallée receives a request from engineers to send their best cases to unnamed Wright Field scientists.
- Jack Pickett and the MacDill discs (1966-1967) — A retired pilot and a journalist say they saw Air Force-marked disc craft at MacDill AFB.
See every 1966 event on the UAP Timeline →
References
- Linda Moulton Howe — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- Earthfiles — Linda Moulton Howe's news site · earthfiles.com · archived copy
- earthfiles.com · earthfiles.com · archived copy
Further reading
- Area 51 — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
This page was last edited on 29 October 2026. Articles are written in our own words from the sources listed under References; disputed claims are attributed to the people who made them.
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