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Kirtland AFB control tower sighting

When: 4 Nov 1957
Where: Kirtland AFB, NM
Sources: 1 public source

Kirtland Air Force Base in the 1950s, where tower operators reported the 1957 object USAF, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

CAA tower operators at Kirtland AFB reported a dark object with a white light below that crossed the field, appeared to reverse direction at low altitude and climbed into the overcast, with a radar return. The Air Force and the Condon Report concluded it was likely a small private aircraft.

Sources

OfficialScientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects (Condon Report), Section III, Chapter 5: Optical and Radar Analyses of Field Cases (opens in a new tab)University of Colorado for the U.S. Air Force (copy hosted by NCAS) / 1969

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