PCF-008674 · case file
WHITE SANDS, NM, US
08/26/1949 · WHITE SANDS, NM, US · 1 witness
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No incident narrative was recorded for this case in the source catalog. The facts below are everything the master record retained.
- Local time
- 100.0
- County
- Dona Ana
- # of objects
- 1
- Witness count
- 1
- Other sources
- DoubtMag
- Reported location (raw)
- WHITE SANDS, NM, US
The unmodified record(s) the master event was assembled from.
UFOCATU-1462812 fields
- Date
- 08/26/1949
- County
- Dona Ana
- Location
- WHITE SANDS
- Time Local
- 100.0
- # of Objects
- 1
- Country Code
- US
- Catalog Entry
- U-14628
- Other sources
- DoubtMag
- State or Prov
- NM
- Witness Count
- 1
- Original Location
- WHITE SANDS, NM, US
- Duration (Minutes)
- B
UFOCATU-146279 fields
- Date
- 08/26/1949
- County
- Dona Ana
- Location
- WHITE SANDS
- # of Objects
- 1
- Country Code
- US
- Catalog Entry
- U-14627
- Other sources
- DoubtMag
- State or Prov
- NM
- Original Location
- WHITE SANDS, NM, US
UFOCATU-657688 fields
- Date
- 08/26/1949
- County
- Dona Ana
- Location
- WHITE SANDS
- Country Code
- US
- Catalog Entry
- U-65768
- Other sources
- KArnold1
- State or Prov
- NM
- Original Location
- WHITE SANDS, NM, US
UFOCATU-5567712 fields
- Date
- 08/26/1949
- County
- Dona Ana
- Location
- WHITE SANDS
- Time Local
- 100.0
- # of Objects
- 1
- Country Code
- US
- Catalog Entry
- U-55677
- Other sources
- NewsClip
- State or Prov
- NM
- Witness Count
- 1
- Original Location
- WHITE SANDS, NM, US
- Duration (Minutes)
- B
BLUEBOOK-DOCBLUEBOOK-DOC:9a43d631:22717 fields
- city
- White Sands Proving Ground
- date
- 1949-08-26
- site
- rocket launch site
- state
- New Mexico
- country
- USA
- date_raw
- Aug. 26, 1949
- incident
- Just prior to a planned Navy Viking rocket launch, a senior officer scanning the sky with binoculars sighted an unidentified object from the N which was in a shallow dive then turned W. Viking no. 2 launch postponed to Sept. 6, 1949.
- time_local
- Just after 11 a.m.
- trajectory
- from N in shallow dive then turned W
- case_source
- BLUEBOOK
- time_of_day
- Day
- source_quote
- a senior officer scanning the sky with binoculars sighted an unidentified object from the N which was in a shallow dive then turned W.
- catalog_entry
- BLUEBOOK-DOC:9a43d631:227
- location_text
- White Sands Proving Ground, New Mexico
- witness_count
- 1
- source_doc_sha
- 9a43d631b4fef701b0eca48a6a4341610f3d1de7281b7a5bd94eb1429136df30
- witness_occupation
- senior military officer
Geography
- BLUEBOOK-DOCBLUEBOOK-DOC
- UFOCATUFOCAT
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