Regina, New MexicoNovember 1957

Unidentified

Summary

On November 5, 1957, in Regina, New Mexico, a civilian observer reported seeing a star-like object the size of a baseball that was red-blue in color and made a whistling sound. The sighting lasted 15 minutes. One object was observed traveling from northeast to southwest. The observer was servicing a car and was positioned at 39 degrees, then 38 degrees, 158 degrees before the object moved from northeast to southwest and went behind a mountain. The Air Force concluded it was unidentified, noting that without additional data, it was impossible to evaluate the sighting.

Reported location

Regina, New Mexico

Date of incident

November 1957

State / country

NM / US

Page count

3 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unidentified

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 29

Original case file scans

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PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD

1. DATE: 5 November 1957

2. LOCATION: Regina, New Mexico

3. DATE-TIME GROUP: GMT 0630016Z

4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION: [checkbox] Ground-Visual [checkbox] Ground-Radar [checkbox] Air-Visual [checkbox] Air-Intercept Radar

5. PHOTOS: [checkbox] Yes [checkbox] No

6. SOURCE: Civilian

7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION: 15 minutes

8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS: one

9. COURSE: NE to SW

10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING: Star-like object, size of baseball, red-blue, with a whistling sound.

11. COMMENTS: Without additional data, it is impossible to evaluate this sighting.

12. CONCLUSIONS: [checkbox] Astronomical [checkbox] Aircraft [checkbox] Probably Balloon [checkbox] Possibly Balloon [checkbox] Other [checkbox] Insufficient Data for Evaluation [checked] Unknown

ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52)

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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28973145