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Welcome to bite-sized UFOs, a show where we break down lesser-known UFO cases in 20 minutes or less.

And now here's your host, Graham Rendell.

Welcome to episode 10 of bite-sized UFOs. In this installment, let's look at a case from March 1959, where the UFO reportedly pursued a SNARC missile under test from a launch site in Florida.

The encounter was only observed on radar, but is nonetheless an extremely intriguing incident.

Here's a quick history of the Northrop SM-62 Snark missile. After the first atom bombs were used in anger,

United States Air Force attention turned to finding a better delivery method

than a lumbering B-29 Superfortress bomber,

dropping these weapons free-fall style over their targets.

During the first round of American missile development in the late 1940s and early 1950s,

design of guided missiles capable of delivering an atomic bomb to a Russian target,

was restricted to employing air-breathing turbojet engines rather than liquid-fuelled rocket motors.

Development delays, successive rounds of defence cuts and changes in mission parameters meant that

development of the snark turned into a protracted affair. Initial flights of the original smaller

version of the missile, designated the Northrop M25,

took place at Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico, in 1951 and 1952, but when intercontinental range was required, a larger airframe was needed.

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