 Case Directory Category 1, Distant Encounters Preliminary Rating: 5 |
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Classification of Distant Encounter is usually
an incident involving an object more than 500
feet from the witness. At night it is
classified as a "nocturnal light" (NL) and
during the day as a "daylight disc" (DD). The
size of the object or the viewing conditions
may render the object in greater detail but
yet not qualify the sighting as a Close
Encounter which is an object within
500'. |
1,300
M.P.H. Diamond Tracked At Base
May 7, 1949
Killeen Base, Camp Hood, Texas
May 7, 1949
Killeen Base, Camp Hood, Texas
| Brad Sparks: May 7, 1949; Killeen Base, Camp Hood, Texas (BBU)
7:40 p.m. Lt. Mardell Ward, at the Army's UFO
observation post, and another observation site,
spotted a brilliant white diamond-shaped object at
triangulated location 15,000 ft away at 1,000 ft 57
secs 2+ real-time triangulation altitude headed NW.
Object was tracked for 57 seconds as it traveled 20
miles (at 1,300 mph) while changing color from white
to reddish to greenish as it dropped altitude and
dimmed then disappeared. No sound. (FOIA; Jan Aldrich;
Loren Gross Jan-Jun 1949 Supp p. 79, erroneously put
at Los Alamos)
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