Case Directory - Category: 1; Distant Sighting
  
Subject:    AFOSI Case 10; AESS Observed Green Flare Directly Over Sandia Base
Date:        December 6, 1948
Location:  Albuquerque, NM


Francis Ridge:
This report is not an original BB unknown, but has been included in the Comprehensive Catalog of Project Blue Book Unknowns by Brad Sparks.

Dec. 6, 1948. Albuquerque, New Mexico (35.10° N, 106.64° W). 10:55 p.m. AESS officer Joseph Toulouse driving W saw a green fireball almost directly overhead above Sandia Base nuclear weapons assembly site, slightly to the NW arching slightly downward from E to W, about 1/3 full moon, with a flaming tail. (FOIA)


For reports, documentation, analysis or discussions - see below:

OSI Case 10, MAXW-PBB4-1284 - BB Microfilm - Francis Ridge
OSI Case 10, MAXW-PBB4-1294 - BB Microfilm - Francis Ridge
OSI Cases 8, 9, 10, 11, 13 - BB Microfilm - Dan Wilson
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