# August 30, 1950 — Holloman AFB, NM — Two Objects Filmed during Shrike Missile Test

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August 30, 1950 — Holloman AFB, NM  
10:45 a.m. During a Bell Aircraft MX-776 Shrike missile test (for the later Rascal air-to-ground strategic missile) a USAF M/Sgt and eight Bell Aircraft employees at Holloman AFB, New Mexico, see two glaringly bright circular or elliptical objects maintaining relative position to each other following the B-50 Superfortress launch aircraft from above on both the dry run and hot run prior to missile release. The objects give a “strong glare at all times” (not reflected sunlight), maneuver at high estimated speeds up to 10 times the B-50 (roughly 2,500 mph) for short distances, leave no vapor trails, hover, accelerate rapidly, and make abrupt “square” turns with apparent size changing to indicate ascent and descent. [Eberhart]

Sources:  
Maj. R. G. Illing, “Aerial Phenomena,” September 13, 1950;

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> **[1950-08-30\_USA\_Holloman\_AFB.pdf](https://www.project1947.com/fig/1950-08-30_USA_Holloman_AFB.pdf)**
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Project Twinkle Final Report;

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Brad Sparks, Blue Book Unknowns Catalogue, Case 400, p. 98;

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Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1950 August-December, The Author, 1982, pp. 11-12;

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Michael Swords and Robert Powell, UFOs and Government, p. 116;

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Jerome Clark, The UFO Encyclopedia, 3rd Ed., p. 544;  
Jerome Clark, The UFO Encyclopedia, 4th Ed., p. 602;

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NICAP, “Two Objects Filmed during Shrike Missile Test”;

> **[UFO Report](http://www.nicap.org/500830holloman_dir.htm)**