| Late August 1947 - Holloman AFB, New Mexico, USA |
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Late August 1947 : Holloman AFB, New Mexico, USA 
A round white object traveling at "unprecedented rate of speed". Radar tracked a stationary target at 200 miles altitude.
AMC Watson Labs Project MOGUL communications officer Lieutenant H. G. Markley, while watching two balloons with a radar reflector to the southeast in 10x binoculars, saw, traveling at "unprecedented rate of speed", a round white object in horizontal flight, south to north, several thousand feet over the tops of Sacramento Mountains. On the same day AMC Watson Labs Project MOGUL engineer Rosmovski and Markley tracked a stationary target at 200 miles altitude using a modified CPS-4 radar aimed at 70° elevation. (Case explained by AF as "false radar targets") One ball was observed by one witness with binoculars and others for several minutes (Markley, H G; Rosmovski). Hynek rating: RV: Radar-Visual UFO reports Vallee rating: MA2: MA1 plus any physical effects caused by the UFO. Other sightings in this area Sources: 809 |
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