Fort Worth, TexasApril 1954

Unidentified

Summary

On April 28, 1954, starting about 8:55 p.m., over Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas, civilians and military personnel reported an object for more than two hours. A student first saw a T-shaped object that changed color from red to white to blue and had a green tail. It hovered near 4,000 feet. The object was tracked on a weather radar storm detector at Carswell Air Force Base and seen visually from the Carswell and Meacham control towers. Two jets and a T-6 were sent to check the area. The object was still visible the next morning. The Air Force conclusion was astronomical, the planet Jupiter, which set in the west about the time the object disappeared.

Reported location

Fort Worth, Texas

Date of incident

April 1954

State / country

TX / US

Page count

5 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unidentified

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 20

Original case file scans

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