Pecos, New MexicoSeptember 1957

Unidentified

Summary

On September 16, 1957, at about 1935 (7:35 p.m.) near Pecos, New Mexico, a civilian saw one disc-shaped object through eyeglasses. It was about the size of a grapefruit, white with a yellow tint. It had a very long, dull blue vapor trail. The object disappeared instantly and made no sound. The sighting lasted about one second as the object moved to the southwest. The Air Force record card for Project 10073, its official record for unidentified flying object reports, lists the conclusion as probably astronomical. The card says the description, traits, flight path, and short time in sight suggest a meteor.

Reported location

Pecos, New Mexico

Date of incident

September 1957

State / country

NM / US

Page count

3 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unidentified

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 28

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 3

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i RE a PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD ..

* | 1 DATE res 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS

! O Wos Balloon

| 16 September 1957 Pecos, New Mexico 0 Rabati elle

4 3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION Ey Ce

- p 0 Was Aircraft

3 Seal ne eee 0 he XIX Ground- Visual D Ground-Rodar O Probably Aircraft

| [IT RE ST ANS A O Air Visual O Air-Intercept Rodar |D Possibly Aireroft

3 S. PHOTOS ; - SOURCE 0 _Was Astronomicol JNeteor

ee 0 Yes BF XProbably Astronomical

Eg XX No Civilian DO Possibly Astronomical

| 7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE BOM a a

E: OD Insufficient Dato for Evaluation

E 0 Unknown

A one second one Southwest

. [10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS

1 Disc-shaped object, size of grapefruit Description, characteristics,

E white with yellow tint, very long dull flight path, short duration,

b blue vapor trail disappeared instantly etc. suggest a meteor.

4 No sound,

4 ATIC PORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52)
4 /
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E; 4 AY

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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28971643