[BLANK] radar-visual unidentified-object report — July 7, 1951

On or during July 7, 1951, at or near [BLANK], the source reports the following sequence: However, on 14 March 1952, nine Bell personnel reported sighting between fourteen and twenty bodies that unlike a close of scene. On 9 July a "red glowing ball" was sighted by a sergeant stationed at the Corona Experimental Radar site at Corona, New Mexico. (Copies of both reports are attached). More recently, a pilot reported some aerial objects which, after investigation, were identified as planets. Guldenberg, who is an assistant to Major Ley and an active amateur astronomer, commented that he has been spending several hours at his telescope almost every night for the past few years and never once observed an unexplicable object; that on one occasion, an excited acquaintance was notified when a "strange object" showed up as an eagle in the telescope; that Clyde Tombaugh, discoverer of the planet Pluto and now engaged in activities at White Sands, never observed an inexplicable aerial object despite his continuous and extensive observations of the sky; that Fred Whipple in his work photographing meteors at Las Cruces, never detected a strange aerial object with his sensitive cameras; and that the A and M College at Las Cruces engages in astronomical observations but had never observed strange aerial phenomena. It crossed the city from Northwest to Southeast with a sharply descending trajectory which leveled out and was observed by many residents of the city. Conclusions Undoubtedly, a good many of the observations reported are attributable to ordinary man-made objects such as airplanes, balloons, smoke rockets, etc. A rough analysis of available weather data, indicated that on the 33 nights (between 5 December 1948 and 5 March 1951) when observations were reported, 10 were clear, 23 partially cloudy, 2 completely overcast and 14 had no record. The results did not indicate that the phenomena were observed largely at full moon. The statistics show that of the 72 observations reported, 45 occurred when the moon was up and 27 when it was down with many of the observations occurring at the time of the moon's first quarter. Whipple made a careful study of meteor photographs taken in New Mexico on 25 nights when observations were reported. Tear shaped object with small tail; very bright appearance; descended slowly; may sighted us for about 1 sec; observation using 6x30. 1951 - April object reported in the vicinity of Holloman AFB.