# July 14, 1951 — WSMR, NM — White Sands Radar/Visual

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**Created:** [July 13, 2025, 11:40pm UTC](https://uapdiscovery.discourse.group/t/july-14-1951-wsmr-nm-white-sands-radar-visual/250 "2025-07-13T23:40:28Z")
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July 14, 1951 — WSMR, NM  
Morning. During a guided missile launch, two radar operators at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, catch a fast-moving object on their scope. At the same time, a tracker watching a B-29 with binoculars sees a large UFO near the bomber. Another observer sights the UFO and, with a 35mm camera, shoots 200 feet of film. The UFO shows on the film as a round, bright spot. The film has never been released.[Eberhart]

No case found in BB files, so this is another one of Brad Sparks made-up unknowns based on his own opinions:

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Sources:  
Brad Sparks, Blue Books Unknowns Catalogue, Case 46, p. 107;

 ![07141951-WSMRNM-Sparks-Case460-p107](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/uapdiscovery/original/2X/f/f586ddc79c7f843cb72bfb2a81a1d03e413b6586.png)

Timothy Good, Above Top Secret, pp. 354–355;

 ![07141951-WSMRNM-GoodATS-p354](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/uapdiscovery/original/2X/d/d4fbc66817bffbad86fb8292b5208700f7b4fc38.jpeg)  
 ![07141951-WSMRNM-GoodATS-p355](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/uapdiscovery/original/2X/2/22dee0c655b8efc21104eca62a316f699fa1b33b.jpeg)

Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers from Outer Space, Henry Holt and Co.,1953, p. 48;

 ![07141951-WSMRNM-KeyhoeFSOS-p48](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/uapdiscovery/original/2X/4/4dc86c668b8ebbeb105941132a0de07f0c8bf163.jpeg)

Richard H. Hall, ed. The UFO Evidence. Washington, DC; National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena, 1964, pp. 77, 84, 88;

 ![07141951-WSMRNM-UFOEv-p77](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/uapdiscovery/original/2X/1/1bf544bc167a690ba720ce52ce6589ee87ed4a46.png)  
 ![07141951-WSMRNM-UFOEv-p84](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/uapdiscovery/original/2X/7/79e768b28775b992a88b2849c71028eda9521d39.png)  
 ![07141951-WSMRNM-UFOEv-p88](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/uapdiscovery/original/2X/0/07ee4172784d0abc8bea0fe806a286684f74c828.png)

NICAP, “White Sands Radar/Visual”;

> **[UFO Report](https://www.nicap.org/510714holloman_dir.htm)**

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Project 1947, “Radar and Visual UFO Sighting, White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico—July 14, 1951”;

> **[PROJECT 1947: Radar and Visual UFO Sighting, White Sands Missile Range, July...](https://www.project1947.com/folio/19510714_wsmr.htm)**
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> Radar and Visual UFO Sighting, White Sands Missile Range,
> July 14, 1951