December 5, 1948 — Las Vegas, NM
9:05 p.m. Pilot Capt. William R. Goade is flying a USAF C-47 from Denver to Phoenix.
Just west of Las Vegas, New Mexico, he and his copilot Maj. Roger Carter spot a bright green flash. Some 22 minutes later, an identical flash rises from the east slope of Sandia Peak and follows a parabolic curve as the C-47 passes 20 miles northeast of Albuquerque. Around 9:35 p.m., Capt. Ernest Van Lloyd and the crew of Pioneer Airlines Flight 63 also see the second object, described as first orange, then green, near Montezuma, New Mexico. He attempts evasive action, but the object drops close to ground level. [Eberhart]
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Sources:
Lincoln LaPaz, Director of the Institute of Meteoritics, letter to Lt. Colonel Doyle Rees, Office of Special Investigations, December 20, 1948;
Brad Sparks, Blue Books Unknowns Catalogue, Case 146, p. 43;
Jerome Clark, The UFO Encyclopedia, 3rd Ed., p. 539;
Jerome Clark, The UFO Encyclopedia, 4th Ed., p. 597;
NICAP, “AFOSI Case 8: AF C-47 Pilot Observes UFO Similar to Green Flare”;
NICAP, “AFOSI Case 9: Commercial Pilot Reports Green Flare”;
Air Force Biographies, “BRIGADIER GENERAL WILLIAM R. GOADE”;
https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/106982/brigadier-general-william-r-goade/