Navy Cmdr. Robert McLaughlin's White Sands saucer article in True

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Bumper-WAC rocket launching at White Sands Proving Ground, 1949
A Bumper-WAC launch at White Sands Proving Ground in 1949, where McLaughlin served NASA, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Cmdr. Robert McLaughlin, who had led the Navy's guided-missile unit at White Sands, wrote in True that tracked objects there were flying saucers, possibly from another planet. The Navy's guided-missile chief and the Defense Department said no service had such craft.

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  1. PressThe Press: The Saucer-Eyed Dragons (opens in a new tab)TIME / 1950-04-17

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