PCF-008663 · case file
LAS CRUCES, NM, US
08/20/1949 · LAS CRUCES, NM, US · 3 witnesses
The recordCharacteristics From the source record Source records · 3
No incident narrative was recorded for this case in the source catalog. The facts below are everything the master record retained.
- Shape
- Rectangl
- Sound
- NoSound
- Duration
- 3 min
- Local time
- 1200.0
- County
- Dona Ana
- # of objects
- +6
- Witness count
- 3
- Other sources
- AMichel1
- Reported location (raw)
- LAS CRUCES, NM, US
The unmodified record(s) the master event was assembled from.
UFOCATU-1461115 fields
- Date
- 08/20/1949
- Color
- Green
- Shape
- Rectangl
- Sound
- NoSound
- County
- Dona Ana
- Location
- LAS CRUCES
- Time Local
- 1200.0
- # of Objects
- +6
- Country Code
- US
- Catalog Entry
- U-14611
- Other sources
- AMichel1
- State or Prov
- NM
- Witness Count
- 3
- Original Location
- LAS CRUCES, NM, US
- Duration (Minutes)
- .3
UFOCATU-1460815 fields
- Date
- 08/20/1949
- Color
- Green
- Shape
- Rectangl
- Sound
- NoSound
- County
- Dona Ana
- Location
- LAS CRUCES
- Time Local
- 1200.0
- # of Objects
- +6
- Country Code
- US
- Catalog Entry
- U-14608
- Other sources
- JVallee01b
- State or Prov
- NM
- Witness Count
- 3
- Original Location
- LAS CRUCES, NM, US
- Duration (Minutes)
- .3
BLUEBOOK-DOCBLUEBOOK-DOC:9a43d631:22620 fields
- city
- Las Cruces
- date
- 1949-08-20
- shape
- rigid formation of rectangles on a solid dark object
- sound
- No sound
- state
- New Mexico
- country
- USA
- date_raw
- Aug. 20, 1949
- incident
- Astronomer Clyde W. Tombaugh, with wife and mother-in-law, all saw a rigid formation of faint bluish-green rectangles as if windows on a solid dark object about 1° across, which flew at high speed from zenith SSE to about 35° above the horizon where it disappeared, the rectangles foreshortening due to the slant angle. No sound. Wife thought she saw faint interconnecting glow.
- time_local
- 10:45 p.m.
- trajectory
- high speed from zenith SSE to 35° above horizon, velocity ~1,700 mph
- case_source
- BLUEBOOK
- size_meters
- about 1° across (~100 ft est.)
- time_of_day
- Night
- source_quote
- Astronomer and discoverer of planet Pluto, Clyde W. Tombaugh, with wife and mother-in-law, all saw a rigid formation of faint bluish-green rectangles as if windows on a solid dark object about 1° across
- catalog_entry
- BLUEBOOK-DOC:9a43d631:226
- location_text
- Las Cruces, New Mexico (32.22° N, 106.75° W)
- witness_count
- 3
- source_doc_sha
- 9a43d631b4fef701b0eca48a6a4341610f3d1de7281b7a5bd94eb1429136df30
- light_emissions
- faint bluish-green rectangles like windows; faint interconnecting glow
- witness_occupation
- astronomer (Clyde W. Tombaugh)
Geography
- BLUEBOOK-DOCBLUEBOOK-DOC
- UFOCATUFOCAT
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