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UFO case file · UFO-26166

Albuquerque reported close encounter — March 6, 1951

CE1United States1951-03-06

Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States

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Case description

On or during March 6, 1951, at or near Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States, the source reports the following sequence: LENGTH OF OBSERVATION: Not Reported 7. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING: Reports gathered by Domestic Intelligence on this object with purposes to have possibly attempted recovery of portions assumed to have possibly landed. CONCLUSIONS: Not Reported 9. COURSE: Not Reported 10. The map is likely used to document the location and movement of reported UFO sightings. PILOTS - never telephones: The following are IDENTIFICATI on followed: Examples: IDENTIFICATI and later: Examples: After communicat that three units or radio range or rad, Examples: After the airway a increase with the de Examples: If you are flying of flight know your indicated by such The word "OUT" is Examples: "OUT" The words "STAN Examples: "STAN All air tained, rain of t, tions? Also observed by two Kirtland AFB pilots who reported this as a meteor; time - 14:30; reported by Dr. And the next event was the fireball of February 13, 1951 in the Animas-Lordsburg region, which was followed shortly by the March 6 incident, which has been the scene of full and continuous investigation for several weeks immediately after the fall, but also has been repeatedly DOWNGRADED AT 3 YEAR INTERVALS It appears to be a scanned page of a classified document from Project Blue Book, a United States Air Force program that investigated unidentified flying objects (UFOs). LAPAZ's statement, attached (report) that a photographic coverage of the area as where the luminous phenomena was reported in his opinion could have landed was noted. Col., USAF District Commander PILOTS GUIDE FOR COMMUNICATING WITH AIRWAY STATIONS IDENTIFICATION OF AIRCRAFT: Your aircraft is identified by the make of aircraft followed by the certificate number. COMMUNICATION OF AIRWAY STATIONS: CAA Airway Communications Stations are identified by the name of the station followed by the word "RADIO".

Recorded details

Local time
14:34 hours
Coordinate precision
LOCALITY
Date precision
EXACT_DAY

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