August 31, 1951 — Matador, TX
12:45 p.m. Mrs. Tom Tilson and one or two other women are driving north on Hwy 70 near Matador, Texas, when they see to the west a pear-shaped object the length of a B-29 fuselage (100 feet). It is aluminum or silver-yellow with a port or some type of aperture on the side, and it moves with its smaller end forward, drifting slowly at about 150 feet altitude. It then shoots up in a circular fashion and out of sight after a few seconds. [Eberhart] See todays Lubbock case for more material that references this sighting.
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Sources:
Illustration from Telesma Blooorb;
“‘Strange Aircraft’ Seen at Matador.” Lubbock Morning Avalanche, September 1, 1951;
Brad Sparks, Blue Book Unknowns Catalogue, Case 468, p. 109;
Jerome Clark, The UFO Encyclopedia, 3rd Ed., p. 692;
Jerome Clark, The UFO Encyclopedia, 4th Ed., p. 767;
See August 25 post for more sources for this case, like Loren Gross’s material on the case. The August 25 and later Hart photo and Matador are usually covered in the same sources together.