Radium Springs, New MexicoNovember 1957

Unidentified

Summary

On November 6, 1957, witnesses at Radium Springs, New Mexico, reported one object in the sky. The witnesses were military and civilian. The sighting was a ground visual observation that lasted about 10 minutes.

The object was round, about the size of a quarter held at arm's length. It alternated between red, green, blue, and white. It rose vertically from the top of the Organ Mountains and disappeared 10 minutes later into a cloud bank.

This case is part of Project 10073, the Air Force's official record for unidentified flying object reports. The Air Force listed the conclusion as unidentified.

Reported location

Radium Springs, New Mexico

Date of incident

November 1957

State / country

NM / US

Page count

2 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unidentified

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 30

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 2

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5 sick PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD § dnd
1. DATE 2 LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
QO Wes Balloon
Pp November 195 Radium Springs, New Mexico |Q Probably Balloon
3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4 TYPE OF OBSERVATION G Ternuy Suen
v 0 Was Aircraft
Local — | XKOmundVisyal 0 Ground-Reder Q Probably Aircreft |
GMT 07/0550Z | O AisVisel O Air-Intercept Radar |O Possibly Aircraft L
5S. PHOTOS Ou O Was Astronomical
QO Yes O Probably Astronomicel
30 Ne Military & Civilian O Possibly Astronomicel :
7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION * | 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE JE TC |
o Bt iit te dente: :
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10 minutes one vertical dy B50 Sh
10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS
| Round object, size of quarter at arm’ Unidentified.
length, alternating between red, green,
blue and white, Object rose vertically
from top of organ mountains and disa-
ppeared 10 minutes later into a cloud
| bank,
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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28973991