| 7 May 1949 - Fort Hood, Texas, USA |
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7 May 1949 19:40 Fort Hood, Texas, USA 
Brilliant white diamond-shaped object at triangulated location
Lieutenant Mardell Ward, at the Army's UFO observation post, and another observation site, spotted a brilliant white diamond-shaped object at triangulated location 15,000 feet away at 1,000 foot altitude headed NW. Object was tracked for 57 seconds as it traveled 20 miles (at 1,300 mph) while changing color from white to reddish to greenish as it dropped altitude and dimmed then disappeared. No sound. (FOIA; Jan Aldrich; Loren Gross Jan-Jun 1949 Supp p. 79, erroneously put at Los Alamos) AFOSI Summary: Time: 2025 2105; Number of Observers: 4; Reliability: good; Area: Camp Hood, Texas; Direction: SE; Altitude: 1300'; Color: green-white; Train: none; Duration: 40 minutes; Sound: none; Shape: diamond shape; Size: three mils width; Speed: covered 15 mils in 40 minutes horizontally.; Disappearance: dimmed and went out. One green-red object was observed by two witnesses for 57 minutes (Mardell Ward). Hynek rating: DD: Daylight Discs Vallee rating: FB1: A simple sighting of a UFO traveling in a straight line across the sky. Other sightings in this area Sources: 809 |
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