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red insignia about 2 1/4 inches high by 2 inches wide was centered on the object. A check with radar operators on duty at the White Sands Missile Range and Holloman Air Force Base, both nearby, disclosed no radar detection of unidentified aircraft in the area. But the UFO was flying low - no higher than 20 feet of altitude during its sighting - and could have thus been missed by radar because of ground-clutter. Also there was no record of unconventional research aircraft being tested in flight at the time in that area. The UFO left impressions in the ground where it was sighted and smoke appeared to be coming from a bush. Yet when a State Police sergeant. later broke off a branch from the bush, it was cool to the touch. More than a month later, in an official communique to the Pentagon, the Air Force reported: "Information obtained during this investigation revealed that the sighting was legitimate and there was no indication that a hoax was being perpetrated." Florida. COMMENT: Could have been a helicopter - except that women living on an Air Force Base should be familiar enough with all kinds of conventional aircraft to determine this. The women who first sighted TIME/PLACE OF SIGHTING: May 22, 1961, at 4:30 P.M. local time/Tyndall Air Force Base, DURATION: 15 minutes. NUMBER OF OBSERVERS: Two. TYPE OF OBSERVER: Wives of Air Force personnel. NUMBER OF OBJECTS: One. OBSERVER RELIABILITY: Fair. SHAPE: Disc. DIMENSIONS: Size of a volley ball COLOR: Silver. SOUND: None. ALTITUDE: First at 3.5° above southeast horizon, then rose to 35° and disappeared. SPEED: Stationary. TACTICS: Although stationary, the object itself was revolving; finally it rose higher and disappeared.