FOIA: Civilian sighting of several silvery white objects

NM_APR_25_1949.pdf
Project 10073 Record Card of sighting in Springer, New Mexico, 25th April 1949
Record of a civilian sighting of several silvery white objects moving in formation
Document date: 1949-04-25
Department: None Listed
Author: None Listed
Document type: Record
pages: 7


Archivist's Notes: Record of sighting from April 1949 where multiple civilian witnesses watched a group of silvery white objects flying in formation in Springer, New Mexico. These were followed by several other groups. None were visible for more than a few seconds.
Most pages are illegible due to poor quality of document, however part of it can be read to say '...I, for one, am ready to believe the story of the 'flying saucers' which up to now I have not...'

Description:

-Location: 4 miles north-west of Springer New Mexico.

-On the 25th of April, 1949 a 2 civilians witnessed silvery-white metallic objects flying in formation through the air for roughly 5-10 seconds.

-The objects were flying at an altitude of over 50,000 feet in the air.

-The civilians attention was drawn to the objects by a strange sound "Like ducks about to land on water", but did not originate from the objects.

-The objects were reportedly small in size, but were travelling at supersonic speeds.

-Weather conditions were fine, and the objects did not leave any trails or make any noise.

-The exact local time was 6:30 AM (0630).

-The objects were viewed from the ground, and an exact number were not counted. It was only noted that there were multiple objects.

-There were no photos or physical evidence filed.

-The witnesses were interviewed on 2nd of May 1949, 1 week after the sighting.

[edit on 17-11-2007 by Prozac Heart]

NOTES:

-The document is mostly illegible.

-The document is 6 pages long.

This document is a sighting four miles north of Springer, New Mexico.

This document is very poor. More than 80% is poorly copied and unintelligible.

At 6.30am on the 25th of April 1949 it seems a group of people witnessed a cluster of silvery white objects. A noise, which sounded like a group of ducks, alerted the witnesses to the cluster.

The cluster of strange objects seemed to be in a formation. One witness has drawn a sketch of the formation, but the description is unreadable. Although the sketch does seem to rule out any possibility that the formation was ducks.

The formation was approx at 30,000 feet and travelling at supersonic speed.

The two witnessed in the report were a Philip N. Abran and another name that seems to be a Roland Cleg, although the photocopy is poor.

The whole document unfortunately seems very vague due to the clarity and quality of the photocopying.