Unidentified Light Observation - January 6, 1949
Pfc. Meredith J. Everitt observed a bright white diamond-shaped object approximately 1500-2000 feet above ground traveling horizontally at high speed for 500 feet with no smoke or vapor trail.
“Pfc. Everitt advised that on 6 January 1949 he was guarding a C-97 airplane at the landing strip, located adjacent to the Ordnance Area, when at approximately 1730 hours he noticed a bright object travelling through the sky, from the Southeast towards the Northwest. He related that the object was diamond shaped, approximately two feet long, and appeared to be much brighter in its center than at the edges. He estimated that the object was approximately 1500 to 2000 feet in the air and travelled approximately 500 feet, horizontal to the earth's surface, before he lost sight of it.”
Verbatim from DOW-UAP-D017.pdf · View original on war.gov
Case details
- Date
- 1949-01-06
- Date exactness
- Known to the day
- Location
- Sandia Base, Ordnance Area, New Mexico
- Country
- United States
- Region
- New Mexico
- Branch
- USA
- Unit
- Physical Security Branch, Intelligence & Security Division
- Sensors
- eyewitness
- Shape
- Diamond shaped
- Size
- Approximately two feet long
- Altitude
- 1750 ft
Source document
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This sighting
Sandia Base, Ordnance Area, New Mexico / 1949
- DOW-UAP-D017.pdf — Written report of this sighting