10mi EVaugn unidentified aerial event — November 23, 1948

Since we were concerned with an unusual phenomenon, we put the rifles down (from the back of the weapon), and when the FS Gneu represen- tative noticed that his rifle burned with the wind in a small blue flame only fluctuating with the wind direction like an electric arc weld, he fired the gun with the barrel down into the snow, and when the breech began to burn him he threw the rifle into the snow. I do say that at that time there was a strong northwest wind, and after 4 minutes it stopped, or we went down a slope, and the wind passed us, turning upward to an adjacent slope. Poltnik Frantisek Here is the extracted text from the document: --- UNCLASSIFIED Incident: 225 Colonel ████ first observed an unusual aerial phenomena during the latter part of 1947. The phenomena appeared approximately 1000-5000 ft above the ground when first observed and was descending slowly and steadily in a vertical manner toward the earth. By this time the Colonel had stopped his automobile and had gotten out to watch the object. The explosion or disintegration appeared to be taking place some 50 to 60 yards distant and still no noise was noticed. At this time the fragments assumed a fiery red color and descended toward earth in the enormous clouds of brightly ignited debris trailing the ground. On 5 or 6 Nov at approximately 2130 hours he observed a ball of light, reddish with no tail, or trail in diameter, falling vertically which burst 100-200 feet from the ground in a spray of reddish color. He again observed a ball of light descending vertically. On the last 2 sightings/saw no aircraft and heard no sound which is understandable since he was traveling in a closed automobile. Army, New Mexico Military District reports as follows: "On 3 or 4 November 1948 at approximately 2130 hours, I observed a ball of light, reddish tint in color, I put it in disappear, rolling vertically. I observed a ball of light, descending vertically, which burst 1000-2000 feet from the ground.