Roswell, New MexicoSeptember 1960

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Summary

On September 28, 1960, two civilian city police officers in Roswell, New Mexico, reported an object at 1025 (about 5:15 a.m. local), at night. Driving east on East 3rd Street, they saw through the windshield a round object the size of the bottom of a coke bottle, vivid green with an orange tail. It first appeared about 25 degrees above the horizon to the east, then dropped below the tree line along the city street. The object was visible for an estimated 3 to 4 seconds. The sky was clear with unlimited visibility. The officers' reliability was considered above average. The Air Force listed the case as a meteor, noting the description and duration were typical of a meteor and that it correlated with a meteor sighting at Wichita Falls, Texas, at the same time.

Reported location

Roswell, New Mexico

Date of incident

September 1960

State / country

NM / US

Page count

6 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 40

Original case file scans

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E JE... PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD

4 1. DATE - 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS

4 y 0 Wos Bolloon

4 28 sep 60 Roswell, New Mexico 8 Probably Builecs

- 3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION W. CUnsimy WI

1 TRY EE © Ground- Visual D Ground-Rodor = Brboliy bes hs

E GMT 28 10252 a AirVisuol 0 Air-Intercep! Rodor D Possibly Aircraft

i AT] RE ET ER A Ee RETR Tr Ta] 8] 10] a Ge ie DO Was Astronomicol

O Yes I Probably Astronomicel Meteor
i $B Neo Civilian : 0 Possibly Astronomical

1 7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE [s JJ 0 [1 7 IEE SNE Tee GOR

: 0 Insufficient Dota for Evaluation
3 0 Unknown

; 3-4 sec one descending

3 10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS

1 Round object, size of bottom of coke bottle, Description and duration is typical of

E vivid green with orange tail, first seen about a meteor. Correlates with meteor sightin
f 25° elevation, last seen going below trees at Wichita Falls, Texas at the same time
3 aleng city street to the E.
3 ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SFP 52)
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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28989420