Case
Directory - Category: 01; Distant
Encounters
Subject:
AFOSI Case 55; The Arrey, New Mexico/C.B. Moore Case
Date:
April 24, 1949
Location:
White Sands, NM
Francis Ridge:
Even the Air Force couldn't explain this one. This is case number 358
from the Project Blue Book "Unknowns".
Richard Hall:
Features: Theodolite
tracking, high-speed
maneuvering
object. At 10:20 a.m. on a very clear day
Charles B.
Moore, Jr,
a General Mills Company aerologist and four technicians were preparing
to launch a Skyhook balloon and were tracking a small weather balloon,
when they suddenly noticed a whitish object rapidly crossing the sky.
They
turned their theodolite, with 25-power telescope, onto the object and
saw
that it was a featureless ellipse, its length about 2-1/2 times its
width.
After about 60 seconds, the object "disappeared in a sharp climb!"
According
to Ruppelt, the UFO at one point passed in front of a range of
mountains.
From azimuth, elevation, and timing data the object's speed was
calculated
to be between 18,000 and 25,000 m.p.h.
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