FALCONBRIDGE

1. Public Record

Falconbridge, Ontario. 11 November 1975. A NORAD radar site north of Sudbury. Operators report unknown tracks. Ground observers report lights. CF-101 Voodoos scramble from North Bay. The night sits in Canadian and U.S. stacks as a radar-and-visual that did not produce a wreck or a type. This is not Gorman. That dogfight came home as a card about a light and a P-51. This is a hole in the ground that already watched the sky for a living.

November 1975 is northern-tier weather on this shelf. Loring, Wurtsmith, Malmstrom, and later Minot own other nights. Falconbridge is the Canadian square so those pages are not asked to eat Ontario. A radar site will generate unknowns. That is why the site exists. It is also why the remainder has to work harder than a civilian light over a lake.

A NORAD hole. Voodoos. Lights that would not take a tail number.

Three layers: scope, eyes, interceptors. That is already more than most 1975 cards. It is not yet a tray. The Voodoos came home. The tracks did not sit still to be collected.

2. Date of Incident

11 November 1975, Falconbridge / North Bay scramble window. Neighbouring northern-tier nights that autumn are other cards.

3. Location

Falconbridge radar site, near Sudbury, Ontario. Approximate 46°35 N 080°50 W.

4. Official Narrative

NORAD and Canadian Forces activity. Official-adjacent paper treats unknowns over a working radar. No public recovery. No typed foreign or domestic airframe that ends the night.

5. Witness Layer

Radar operators. Ground observers. Voodoo crews. Later Canadian compilers. Loring and Wurtsmith as neighbouring 1975 weather, not as this dirt.

Same autumn, different country, different hole. If a compiler mashes every northern-tier light into one visitor, the roster disappears. Write Sudbury or do not file the scramble.

An intercept that returns without a type is still an intercept. It is not a landing. Keep the distinction.

6. Recovery Logistics

Radar logs and later statements. No object on the Ontario ground.

7. Assessment

Start with the site and the date. A NORAD radar that sees an unknown is doing its job. Lights and a scramble make the night a file. They do not make a craft. Do not let 1975 Maine and Michigan eat this card. Do not let Gorman eat it either. Different year, different ending.

This folder files Falconbridge as an 11 November 1975 radar-and-scramble night. Keep the U.S. northern tier on its own dirt. Keep Mantell in 1948. There was nothing on the ground to put in a tray.

8. Materials & Remains

Radar talk. Crew talk. No hardware.

9. Key Personnel

Falconbridge operators : The hole.

North Bay Voodoo crews : The scramble.

10. Aftermath

Canadian compilers keep the date. U.S. lists sometimes swallow it into the 1975 tour. This page exists so Ontario has to be named when Ontario is meant.

11. Current Archive Status

Status: 11 Nov 1975. Tracks. No tray.

Confidence: High that Falconbridge and North Bay logged unknowns and a scramble that night. Low that the tracks are typed. High that this is not Mantell and not Loring.

Filing note

A NORAD hole north of Sudbury, November dark, tracks that would not sit, Voodoos out of North Bay, a U.S. autumn on this shelf that must not be allowed to eat Ontario.

The interceptors came home. The light did not leave a forwarding address.