PROJECT BLUE BOOK

PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD

Il. DATE f 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
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3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION ” feeeey Pee |
, ac Was Aircraft |
a. are Ct -Ground- Vi sual 0 Ground-Rodor O Probably Aircroft |
GM O4/19402 0 Air Vi suol O Air-Intercept Rodor O Possibly Aircraft |
5 PHOTOS . SOURCE © Was Astronomical
0 Yes 0 Probobly Astronomical
Ofte Civilian DO Possibly Astronomicol
7. LENGTH OF.OBSERVATION | —«| &. NUMBEROF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE OD Other Coe/ inert & 4
GO Insufficient Data for Evaluation
, 0 Unknown
seven or eight mins one South
10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS

One round silver object the size of a
Dasketball at arm's length and witha
tail four times as long as the obj,
the same size. Obj was seen moving ver:
Slowly south and was in sight for seve
or eight minutes,

Concur with rpting officer that
this sighting was caused bya
jet pulling non-persistent con
trails.

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UNITE SANDS PROVtwG GROUNDS, Ne Me, NOV 4e-<(UP)<<TNO SEPARATE
MILITARY PATROLS REPORTED TODAY THEY HAD SEEN AN..UNIDENTIFIED
FLYING OBJECT NEAR THE SPOT WHERE THE FIRST ATOMIC BOMB WAS
EXPLODED IN 1945.

THE DESCRIPTION OFFERED BY THE TWO PATROLS FIT THE ONE OFFERED BY
PERSONS WHO SAID THEY SAW A FLYING OBJECT NEAR LEVELLAND, TEXe,
YESTERDAY « |

THE. PATROLS, OF TWO SOLDIERS EACH, REPORTED THEY HAD SEEN THE VERY
BRIGHT*® OBJECT YESTERDAY NEAR "TRINITY SITE," THE SPOT IN AN ISOLATED
AREA OF WHITE SANDS PROVING GROUNDS WHERE THE FIRST TEST ATOMIC
BOMB WAS EXPLOSED. THEY SAID THEY SAW IT AT DIFFERENT TIMES
YESTERDAY»

ONE PATROL REPORTED THE OBJECT TOUCHED DOWN BRIEFLY AT THE
TRINITY SITE. THE OTHER GROUP SAID IT ONLY HOVERED OVER THE SPOT.
""LTe He Fe TENNY, COMPANY COMMANDER AT THE ARMY'S
STALLION site ON THE GROUNDS, MADE AN INSPECTION TRIP TO THE SCENE TODAY -
KE FOUND NO VISIBLE MARKINGS.

_sME SAID HIS INVESTIGATION WAS COMPLETED, AND THAT THE REPORT WOULD
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WHITE SANDS PROVING GROUNDS, Ne Me, NOVe 4s--(UP)--TWO SEPARATE
MILITARY PATROLS REPORTED TODAY THEY HAD SEEN AN UNIDENTIFIED

FLYING OBJECT EARLY YESTERDAY OVER AN ISOLATED. AREA OF THE WHITE
SANDS PROVING GROUNDS. -

THE DESCRIPTION OFFERED BY THE MILITARY PATROLS FIT THE ONE
REPORTED BY PERSONS WHO SAID THEY SAW A FLYING OBJECT NEAR
EVELLAND, TEXe, YESTERDAY.

baliaseas mented PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICER FOR THIS MISSILE-
TESTI EPORTED OFFICIALLY TONIGHT THAT A "VERY BRIGHT
OBJECT WAS SIGHTED BY THE TWO PATROLS. % 2

THE REPORTS FROM THE PATROLS SAID THE OBJECT WAS SHAPED
LIKE A CIGAR, 200 FEET LONG AND 75 FEET IN DIAMETER. THE pATROLS SAY
THE OBJECT WAS ABOUT 50 YARDS ABOVE THE GROUND. aa

ONE PATROL SIGHTED THE OBJECT AT 2330 Ae Mey YESTERDAY,|

AND THE-OTHER SAW IT AT & Pe Mey YESTERDAYs
ate THE MISSILE CENTERS RADAR UNIT DID NOT PICK pees |

ANY OB ON ITS SCREEN. HE SAID AN INVESTIGATION WAS UNDER- ae, hol
WAY TO DETERMINE AUTHENTICITY OF THE REPORTS. ~~. &
7 THE MILITARY POLICE PATROLS PUT THE INFORMATION OF THE UNIDENTIFIED

OSJECT IN THEIR OFFICIAL DAILY REPORTS. HOWEVER, THE REPORTS WERE
NOT FILED WITH THEIR HEADQUARTERS UNTIL TODAY.

HAGGART SAID THE PATROLS SAW THE .--+
OBJECT (OR OBJECTS) AT POINTS LOCATED_9O MILES NORTH OF THE WHITE
SANDS PROVING GROUNDS HEADQUARTERS y~“IN “THE ISOLATED MISSILE IMPACT, .
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Sky ‘Object’

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WHITE SANDS PROVING
| The Army today reported that

GROUND, N. M., Nov. 4 (P—

Sunday hovering near bunkers
used in the first atomic bomb
explosion.

The sightings were made
seventeen hours apart by two
different military police patrols
on this southern New Mexico
missile testing range. The first
atomic bomb:Was touched off
on the northern edge of the
larea July 16, 1945.

First Lt. Miles F. Penney,
commanding. officer of
M. P.’s, said none of the men
had heard radio reports or
seen newspaper accounts of
~ [ea sightings - Texas yes-
terday.

Both’ sighting were in the

used by~- technicians who ob-

aue explosion.

5 WITH Lt. Penney said one sighting
PRESS was made by @ two-man patrol
cme at around 8 p.-m, Sunday. —

Sp. 3/c Barlow reported that
time their patrol saw a bright
light, Specialist Oakes thought
hanging about fifty feet above
the old atom bunker. He said

Tlat a 45 degree-angle into the

it disappeared. .

This patrol estimated’ the
long.” “It was very bright,”
Specialist Oakes said. He said
his patrol was two or three
miles west of the light.-

'f| The earlier signting came at

-13 a.m. Another two-man jeep
' |patrol consisting of Cpl. Glenn
H. Toy and a Pfc. Wilbanks
made the report...

Pa Lt. Penney quoted them as

——.. Saying they noticed a “very
bright object” high in the sky.
The object descended until it
was about Afty yards } above the

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a huge oval object “nearly as}.
bright as the sun” was Spotied |

the

area’ of: abandoned bunkers}

served the world’s first atomic |}.

Sp. 3/e Forest R. Oakes and!’

the “large bright light took off)
sky and started blinking. Then| |

object’s size as ‘200 or 300 feet).

iwent Quit.

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atom bomb bunkers

itjan angle to the ground and

went out.’

A few minutes later, Col. Toy! He descrioved the object as!
said, “the object became re: al} about 75 to 100 yards in Giam- ;
bright, like the sun, then fell in. leter and shaped like an eag |

when

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ALBUQUERQUE, NoMa, NOVs 4--(UP)=-THE SOUTHWEST’S LEADING METEORITI-
CLST, DR» LINCOLN LA PAZ, SAID. TQDAY HE DOESN’T BELIEVE THE MYSTERIOUS _
CIGAR=LIKE OBJECT SIGHTED OVER WEST TEXAS AND NEW MEXICO LAST NIGHT
CONTAINED *LITTLE PEOPLE FROM MARS OR VENUS."

LA PAZ, HEAD OF THE METEORITICS INSTITUTE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW
MEXICO, SAID THE OBJECT WAS "ELTHER MAN-MADE" OR COULD BE ATTRIBUTZ=D
TO “METEORITIC PHENOMENON.*

HE SAID STORIES’ OF THE POSSIBILITY OF A "SPACE SHIP" FROM ANOTHER
PLANET MOTIVATED BY MAGNETIC FIELD FORCES "HAS NOT BEEN TAKEN
SERLOUSLY BY SCIENTISTS.»* BUT HE INDICATED IT WAS *ENTIRELY POSSIBLE"
THAT THE OBJECT WAS MAN-MADE.

LA PAZ SAID HE HAS RECEIVED CALLS TODAY FROM “THROUGHOUT THE AREA*
MADE BY PEOPLE WHO REPORTEDLY SIGHTED THE MYSTERIOUS OBJECT. AMONG
THEM WERE METEORITE WATCHERS” WHO OBSERVED THE RED, CIGAR-SHAPED
PHENOMENON THROUGH *BREAKS* IN AN UNUSUALLY CLOUDY SKY.

CIGAR-LIKE OBJECTS AND OTHER SUCH OBJECTS, GLOWING RED, SREEN, AND
PRACTICALLY EVERY COLOR OF THE RAINBOW, HAVE BEEN SIGHTED OVER THE SOUTH
WESTERN DESERT FAIRLY FREQUENTLY WITHIN THE LAST 10 YEARS. LA PAZ
SAID ALL REPORTS, INCLUDING THOSE MADE TODAY, WERE FORWARDED To THE
OFFICIAL GROUP AT WRIGHT PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE IN OHIO WHICH IS
INVESTIGATING SUCH PHENOMENON.

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As for the White Sands sightings, the AF explanation speaks of "lights seen by |
planes patrolling the area." This is the first mention anywhere of planes; all the
newspaper accounts said lights were seen by two two-man jeep patrols ~- by one at 3 :
Qem.e and by another at 8 p.m. the same day (Nov. 3). Didn't the AF know about the
jeeps? Did it know about them and prefer to ignore them, and why? Or were they —
merely being careless about their $10,000 facts? Were the lights also seen by planes?
Whatever the reason for this discrepancy, we can test the AF conclusions only against ©
the reports of the jeep observers. Says the AF: "The reports of the plane pilots
were apparently explainable by the planet Venus in an unusually favorable positior.
for observation, or by cloud formations around the moon." So far as the jeeps are \
concerned, the first explanation is all wrong and the second is preposterous. | Venus |
is NEVER visible at all at 3 o'clock in the morning, and on November 3 it had set at |}
7:30 peme, half an hour before the second jeep patrol saw anything. As for the al- ||
ternate explanation suggested, the soldiers’ descriptions of what they saw (page 2)
indicates that such celestial acrobatics of "cloud formations around the moon" (in
New Mexico's notoriously clear skies) were never seen before nor since. 7

The West Texas reports were only hours old when sighti ;
ngs were made ind -
dently by two Army patrols in the old A~bomb testing ranre outside of the thite

Sands Proving Ground in New Mexico, st incident

in New le: nt ocgurred °3 7O—:
man jeep patrol, consisting of Spl. nd Pf lt nay lace
a "very bright" ege-shaped object, about 75 ~ ards in diane er, descend from |

the sky until it was about 50 yards above the old atom b

& 50 yar unkers; then it went .
Suddenly it flared up again brilliantly, "like the sun, then fell in an angle —
the ground and went out," No traces were found » and no unusual effects on the

jeep were noticed, Seventeen hours later, at 8 pem, » Specialists 3/c @jgquuiipeme

(sic) eae sa a "bright 200 or 300 )
: a : ig ~foot light" hanging motionl
eee 2 ee ‘pony . pie the light "took off at a +a iy inela® ena |
ing; en it disappeared, N j : org

pg an Saralianl sandete. P « one of the men in either patrol had known

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