Francis
Ridge:
This incident is not among the original BB Unknowns, but IS listed in
the new Comprehensive Catalog of Project Blue Book Unknowns by Brad
Sparks:
At about 10:00 p.m. on 8/20/49, The
noted astronomer Dr. Clyde Tombaugh
(Discoverer of Pluto), his wife, and his mother-in-law were in the yard
of his Las Cruces home, admiring what Tombaugh described as a sky of
rare
transparency, when Tombaugh, looking almost directly towards zenith,
spotted an array of pale yellow lights moving rapidly across the sky
towards the southeast. He called them to the attention of the two
others,
who saw them just before they disappeared halfway to the horizon. The
entire array subtended an angle which Tombaugh put at about one degree,
and it took only a few seconds to cross 50 or 60 degrees of sky. The
array
comprised six "windowlike" rectangles of light, formed into a symmetric
pattern; they moved too fast for aircraft, too slowly for a meteor, and
made no sound. Tombaugh was quited as saying, "I have never seen
anything
like it before or since, and I have spent a lot of time where the night
sky could be seen well."
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