UAP Reported at Sandia Base, 1948-1950

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S/I, Office of the AC of S, G-2, Headquarters Fourth Army, Fort Sam Houston, Texas, 16 March 1949, subj. "Unusual Lights"

d. Object sighted:

(1) Number: 1

(2) Shape: Roundish head with hazy smoke trail.

(3) Size: Not known

(4) Color: Pale white light at head

(5) Speed: Not known

(6) Direction: From S 58° E to S 54° E

(7) Maneuverability: No deviation

(8) Altitude: From 58° above horizon to 54° above

(9) Sound: None

(10) Exhaust trail: Left hazy white smoke trail

(11) Remarks: Travelled in arc and visible "long enough to snap your fingers."

2. From observation point #4 (see attached overlay).

a. Location: 914.6 - 856.7; Time: About 0103.

b. Weather: Clear (see attached weather report).

c. Witness: Cpl Luke Burke Sims, RA 38753446
Company A, 1/2nd AIB
Camp Hood, Texas

d. Object sighted:

(1) Number: 1

(2) Shape: Lemon with tail

(3) Size: Not known

(4) Color: Pale reddish nose, whitish red trail

(5) Speed: Not known, but very fast

(6) Direction: From N 56° W to S 64° W

(7) Maneuverability: No deviation

(8) Altitude: From 15 above horizon at beginning and end of arc.

(9) Sound: None

(10) Exhaust trail: Whitish red trail

(11) Remarks: Good observer. Stated that "light" started from point above horizon then arced upward and down to 15° when it disappeared. Was perfect arc. He was able to run 10 paces toward field telephone to report light before it vanished.

The following incident may or may not be connected: At about 1930 hours on 7 March 1949, a flashlight was seen moving about the Q Area fence line near the air strip. It could not be told by the observer whether the light was within or

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