Declassified 1953 USAF Report: Unexplained Red Lights Over t

Declassified 1953 USAF Report: Unexplained Red Lights Over the Berlin Corridor

Extracts from Tempelhof air traffic control logs record BEA and Pan Am crews reporting red rockets and a stationary red light near Genthin — which the Soviets reportedly could not explain.

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October 24, 2026

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Inside the 1953 Tempelhof Red Light Intelligence Report

The document Its subject line reads Extracts from Air Traffic Control Logs, and its reporting area is given as Soviet Zone Germany. Prepared by Capt. Fred L.

Allen, an Air Intelligence Officer with the 7350th Base Complement Squadron, and dated 11 August 1953, the report does not investigate a sighting so much as transcribe one: it lifts entries from the Air Traffic Control logs at Tempelhof and forwards them up the Air Intelligence chain, with distribution noted to the Assistant Chief of Staff, A-2, at Headquarters USAFE and to A-2 at Headquarters Twelfth Air Force. What those log entries record is the substance of the file. On the night of 10 August 1953, a British European Airways DC-3 inbound to Tempelhof through the Center Corridor reported red colored rockets appearing to be fired roughly one mile ahead of the aircraft.

A second BEA crew later described a stationary red light…

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DOW-UAP-D159, Air Intelligence Information Report, Germany, 1953

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