Farmington, N.M., May 1958May 1958

Insufficient Data

Summary

On May 14, 1958, a civilian in Farmington, New Mexico reported seeing a bright yellow object about the size of a half dollar. The object was observed through ground-visual observation and blacked out after 3 seconds. The sighting lasted 3 seconds total. One object was reported. The Air Force concluded the sighting was typical of a meteor sighting, noting very limited information was available for evaluation.

Reported location

Farmington, N.M., May 1958

Date of incident

May 1958

State / country

? / XX

Page count

2 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 32

Original case file scans

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PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD

1. DATE: 14 May 58
2. LOCATION: Farmington, N.M.
12. CONCLUSIONS: [checkboxes] Was Balloon, Probably Balloon, Possibly Balloon, Was Aircraft, Probably Aircraft, Possibly Aircraft, Was Astronomical Meteor, Probably Astronomical, Possibly Astronomical, Other, Insufficient Data for Evaluation, Unknown

3. DATE-TIME GROUP: Local [blank], GMT 15/0500Z
4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION: [X] Ground-Visual, [ ] Ground-Radar, [ ] Air-Visual, [ ] Air-Intercept Radar

5. PHOTOS: [ ] Yes, [X] No
6. SOURCE: Civilian

7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION: 3 secs
8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS: one
9. COURSE: [blank]

10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING: Obj oval, size of half dollar, bright yellow. Blacked out after 3 secs.

11. COMMENTS: Very limited info, but typical of meteor sighting.

ATIC FORM 329 (REV 16 SEP 52)

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