Walker AFB, New MexicoJune 1958

Insufficient Data

Summary

On June 21, 1958, at Walker Air Force Base in New Mexico, a military observer reported seeing two pale gold objects in the night sky. The objects were circular and about the size of a dime at arm's length. They flew in trail formation moving very fast and high, fading in the east. The first object appeared at 40 to 50 degrees above the horizon. The observation lasted 25 seconds. The objects did not appear to follow conventional flight paths. The Air Force could not determine the cause and concluded the sighting was unknown.

Reported location

Walker AFB, New Mexico

Date of incident

June 1958

State / country

NM / US

Page count

3 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 33

Original case file scans

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PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD

1. DATE: 21 JUN 58

2. DATE-TIME GROUP: 0900-0902Z

3. LOCATION: Walker AFB, New Mexico

4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION: Ground-Visual

5. SOURCE: Military

6. NUMBER OF OBJECTS: two

7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION: 25 seconds

8. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING: Circular, pale gold obj., size of dime at arms length. Two objs in trail formation, traveling very high & very fast. Did not appear to fade in the East, did not appear to fall. First obar at 40-50 deg elev in East. [illegible] straight path estimated alt of 40,000 to 10 degrees elev in East.

9. CONCLUSIONS: Pale gold objs obsvd at night. -// Distance & time not considered --// n/a if observrs alt estimate is considered near correct. Exceptionionally slow meteors at nlt high, take this long; however, the remainder of the ppt is not in accor w/this analysis. Insufficient data for final evaluatioon.

12. CONCLUSIONS: [checkboxes for Was Balloon, Probably Balloon, Possibly Balloon, Was Aircraft, Probably Aircraft, Possibly Aircraft, Was Astronomical, Probably Astronomical, Possibly Astronomical, Other, Insufficient Data for Evaluation, Unknown]

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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28978575