Category: 08; Photographic Evidence
Subject:
Two UFOs Pace V-2 Rocket
Date:
June 14, 1949
Location:
White Sands, NM
#1302: 1949/6/10 15:40
15 106:30:0W
33:0:0N 3333 NAM USA NMX 8 12
WHITE SANDS,NM:HIQ USN CREW++:2 WHT SCRS PACE V2 ROCKET:1 PASSES
THRU
EXHAUST
Ref# 133 GROSS,L.:UFOs a HISTORY-1949/2 books Book # 1 Page 82
MIL. BASE
Francis Ridge:
Not listed among the original BB Unknowns, this case
IS listed in the Comprehensive Catalog of Project Blue Book Unknowns by
Brad Sparks. According to Sparks, the date must have been the 14th,
rather than the 10th as previously thought..
There was
a report in the LA Times that there was film taken but AFOSI was told
the film showed nothing. The WSMR launch records show the only Navy
missile launches in the period were the Viking No. 1 on May 3rd and No.
2 on Sept 6, 1949, and nothing in June 1949. There was however an Army
V-2 launched on June 14, 1949. My search of the BB microfilm records
turned up the correct date and the fact that it WAS a V-2 rocket. The
film
may have showed something but there is no evidence to support it as yet.
Richard Hall:
Features: Pacing of......missile, high-speed
ascent.
A crew of Navy engineers and technicians under the command of Commander
Robert B. McLaughlin were testing an upper atmosphere missile, with
observation
posts all around the missile test range. When the missile had attained
a speed of 2,000 feet per second on its upward flight, it was suddenly
joined by two small circular objects that paced it, one on each side.
One
of the objects then passed through the missile's exhaust, joined the
other,
and together they accelerated upwards leaving the missile behind.
Shortly
afterwards, Cmdr. McLaughlin received reports from five observation
posts
scattered at all points of the compass; all had witnessed the
performance
of the two circular UFOs.
