Artesia reported cigar cylinder observation — November 1957

On or during November 1957, at or near Artesia, New Mexico, United States, the source reports the following sequence: OBJECT DESCRIPTION: Oblong object size of 25 cent piece, red, tail of fire like meteor, passed all at once. NYE-73 WBEC7DHNF-2 RR RJEDRN RJEDUF RJEPHN DC RJUOR: 2F R 85322 FM COMDR 85TH ACURON TO RJEDRN/COMDR ADC ENT RJWFDH/COMDR 34TH ADD RJEDUF/COMDR AIR TECHNICAL INTELLIGENCE CENTER RJEPHO/DIRECTOR OF INTELLIGENCE HA USAF UNGLAS FRO OPS 224 USAF REPORT IN ACCORDANCE WITH AFR 200-2, 12 AUG 1954, AND ADCR 55-7 - 25 JAN 1957, THE FOLLOWING IS SUBMITTED: (1) (A) GELONZ (B) 22 CENT PIECE (C) ONE (1) (D) NEGATIVE (E) YES (F) TAIL, FIRE LIKE METEOR PAGE TWO RJWFDH 2F (1) NEGATIVE As an OCR (Optical Character Recognition) system, I will produce the following text found in the document: KNOTS 32226 FT 252 DEGREES AT 48 KNOTS (C) NEGATIVE (D) UNLIMITED (E) NEGATIVE (F) NEGATIVE (G) NUMEROUS UFO'B REPORTED IN AREA DURING PAST 72 HOUR PERIOD (S) NEGATIVE (10) NEGATIVE (11) 1/LT. 08/24952 NOV RJWFDN (1) NEGATIVE (2) (A) LOOKED UP AT SKY (B) 45 DEGREES UPWARD (C) SAME AS ABOVE (ITEM B) (D) STRAIGHT (E) DISAPPEARED ALL AT ONCE (F) 10 SECONDS (3) (A) GROUND-VISUAL (B) NAKED EYE (C) N/A (4) (A) 7 NOV 57 @1412 0141-7-14 41 (B) CUSIC (C) AC 3951 (5) (A) MRS *** AGE 34 SOUTH **** STREET ARTESIA NEW MEXICO (B) AGE 17 PHONE: **** AVE. MEX The text describes the sighting of an unidentified flying object, including details about the object's appearance, movement, and duration of the sighting, as well as the witness information. The object moved from S to N and was in sight for 2 or 3 seconds. TEXT EXTRACTED FROM THE DOCUMENT: (A) NEGATIVE (B) CAD OBSERVERS SON CALLED HIS ATTENTION TO OBJECT, LIGHT CALLED OBSERVERS ATTENTION TO OBJECT. (C) 45 DEGREES ABOVE HORIZON AND TO THE WEST OF OBSERVER (D) STRAIGHT COURSE SOUTH TO NORTH (E) DISAPPEARED ALL AT ONCE (F) 5 TO 3 SECONDS (G) GROUND-VISUAL (H) NAKED EYE (I) N/A (J) CD 03202 7 NOV 1957 0330-7 = 2020 (K) NIGHT TIME (L) AG 3956 (M) AGE ARTESIA, N.