Los Alamos, New MexicoJune 1949

Unidentified

Summary

Shortly after midnight on June 2, 1949, a security inspector driving near Los Alamos, New Mexico saw a green ball of light in the sky. His attention was drawn by its bright light and color. The object descended from east to north at about a 40 degree angle and trailed a long, unbroken green tail that was as wide as the object itself. It was self-luminous and stayed in view for only about one second before it disappeared. The sky was clear. The Air Force logged the sighting on a Project 10073 record card, its official form for unidentified aerial object reports, and concluded that the object was astronomical, most likely a meteor.

Reported location

Los Alamos, New Mexico

Date of incident

June 1949

State / country

NM / US

Page count

5 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unidentified

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 5

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 5

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3 PROJECT 10073 RECORD :
1,. DATE - TIME GROUP LOCATION
| 2 June 1949 02/07402 Los Alamos, New Mexico 332
13. SOURCE 10. CONCLUSION
© Civilian Astro (METEOR) |
C4 NUMBER OF OBJECTS |
Ono |
iS. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION |11. BRIEF SUMMARY AND ANALYSIS |
© 1 Seccnd Observers saw a "ball of light" descending East to North.
E Had a long unbroken trail same width of the object. Green
~ 6. TYPE OF OBSERVATION olor, |
~ Ground-Visual
| 7. COURSE
~ Descending at 40 deg angle
| 8. PHOTOS :
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- CaNo |
9. PHYSICAL EVIDENCE ! :
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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28935244