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UFO case file · UFO-31226

13NMSSEOf Melrose New Mexico Cannon Air Force Base reported disc saucer observation — September 25, 1960

CE1Mexico1960-09-25

13NMSSEOf Melrose New Mexico Cannon Air Force Base, Mexico

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Case description

Object disappeared below the horizon. COMMENTS: On clear day which was just above the western horizon, however, the direction of the object was not given, precluding a valid conclusion, as to the exact object which was observed, was not given. Observer was on duty at the Melrose Gunnery Range and thought that someone was at the range reporting to one was at the range. (2) Descending from 1220 above horizon to about 0.5 of a degree per minute until object disappeared below horizon. (3) Apparently from 1220 above horizon at about .5 of a degree per minute until object disappeared below horizon. (4) Slowly in a vertical descent. (5) Time from first sight to final disappearance about 3 minutes. c. NO CASE (INFORMATION ONLY) 25 September 1960 Las Cruces, New Mexico and Texas, New Mexico area Headline: A wave of sightings in New Mexico and near El Paso, Texas, caused great excitement but, according to the most widely published information, turned out to be military aircraft under the Federal Aviation Agency stated that their instruments indicated the UFO was 37 miles above the earth. The object apparently was capable of hovering and they moved off toward the Southwest. No Case (Information Only) 26 September 1960 Woodlands, Invercargill, New Zealand Guanare, Venezuela, and Seattle, Washington On September 26 a large saucer-shaped object was reported circling near Woodlands, Invercargill, New Zealand; a luminous oval-shaped machine was sighted at Guanare, Venezuela, and four dark rotating objects were seen with a telescope as they moved across the face of the Moon by observers at Seattle, Washington. It seems to be a page from a UFO report document from Project Blue Book with a table listing various reported UFO sightings and their details. Aircraft 11 Kisarazu, Japan Aircraft 12 Organ Pass, New Mexico Insufficient Data 12 Sweetwater, South Carolina ADDITIONAL REPORTED SIGHTINGS (NOT CASES) DATE LOCATION SOURCE EVALUATION 4 Casey, Launceston, Australia Investigating 15 Fresno, California Investigating (THIS IS A SEPARATE FOLDER)

Recorded details

Local time
0100
Craft description
Egg / Oval; Disc / Saucer; Light Formation
Coordinate precision
LOCALITY
Date precision
EXACT_DAY

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