Group /Category 1 Distant Sightings

Francis Ridge:
This incident occurred on the same day as the Kirtland weapons storage area (WSA) over flight and is listed in the Project Blue Book unknowns as Case # 5227

Radium Springs is almost two hundred miles from Kirtland, which is just southeast of Albuquerque.  Radium Springs is almost 50 miles northwest of Las Cruces, NM along Interstate 25. See map.

For some details on the incident I consulted my only Blue Book "unknown" sources, Don Berliner and Kevin Randle, and found some sketchy information in Kevin Randle's book, "Project Blue Book Exposed". This was one of the few cases that was not described. I then emailed Larry Hatch, another member of our Nuclear Connection Project staff, and he supplied this listing which was not "flagged" as a "nuclear connection" case,  but found the following in  his *U* Database. I later obtained the brief and only description from Don Berliner's list.

According to the brief account we have, at 10:50 PM, one Las Cruces policeman, one Dona Ana County Deputy Sheriff reported a single round object - changing from red to green to blue to white, which rose vertically from a mountain top. The sighting lasted 10 minutes. In this case it is not what was reported, but where and when, that makes this one noteworthy. Hopefully, someday we will get more details.