Case
Directory - Category: 01; Distant
Encounters
Subject:
Team Watches 35-Meter Disc
Date:
April 5, 1948
Location:
Holloman AFB/White Sands, NM
WHITE SANDS,NM:5
SCIs/THEODOLITE:MOON-SIZE DISK/VLNT
MNVRS:29000kph:/r242p155
Ref# 29 RUPPELT,E.J.:The REPORT ON UFOS. Page
No. 71 MIL. BASE#1276: 1948/4/5 0:0
5 106:33:0W
33:31:0N 3331 NAM USA NMX 8 10
Francis Ridge:
Listed as case 139 on the Project Blue Book Unknowns. On this date in the afternoon, another team watched a UFO for several minutes as it streaked across the afternoon sky in a series of violent maneuvers. The disk-shaped object was about a fifth the size of a full moon. Witnesses: Geophysics Lab balloon observers Alsen, Johnson, Chance. Two irregular, round, white or golden objects. One made three loops then rose and disappeared rapidly; the other flew in a fast arc to the west during the 30-second sighting.
Jacques Vallee:
"In the afternoon of April 5 (1948) Holloman (New Mexico) AFB personnel reported having witnessed an object in the shape of a disk, 35 m in diameter, executing a series of violent turns and maneuvers - it is worth making a note of the dimensions of the disk as estimated by these competent observers. Another disk was seen the same day displaying similar behavior at Manila (?)"
Listed as case 139 on the Project Blue Book Unknowns. On this date in the afternoon, another team watched a UFO for several minutes as it streaked across the afternoon sky in a series of violent maneuvers. The disk-shaped object was about a fifth the size of a full moon. Witnesses: Geophysics Lab balloon observers Alsen, Johnson, Chance. Two irregular, round, white or golden objects. One made three loops then rose and disappeared rapidly; the other flew in a fast arc to the west during the 30-second sighting.
Jacques Vallee:
"In the afternoon of April 5 (1948) Holloman (New Mexico) AFB personnel reported having witnessed an object in the shape of a disk, 35 m in diameter, executing a series of violent turns and maneuvers - it is worth making a note of the dimensions of the disk as estimated by these competent observers. Another disk was seen the same day displaying similar behavior at Manila (?)"
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