June 14, 1949 — White Sands Missile Range, NM
3:35 p.m. A crew of Navy engineers under Capt. Robert Bright McLaughlin is testing an Air Force V-2 rocket at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico. When the V-2 attains a speed of 2,000 feet per second in its upward flight, it is joined by two smaller circular objects that pace it, one on each side. One then passes through the rocket’s exhaust, joins the other, and together accelerate upwards leaving the V-2 behind. Five other missile observation crews also see the objects. [Eberhart]
Sources:
Robert McLaughlin, “How Scientists Tracked a Flying Saucer,” True, March 1950, pp. 25–27, 96–99;
Brad Sparks, Blue Book Unknowns, Case 244, p. 66;
Michael Swords, et al., UFOs and Government, pp. 92–93;
NICAP, “Two UFOs Pace V-2 Rocket”;
Robert McLaughlin, “How Scientists Tracked a Flying Saucer,” True, March 1950, pp. 25–27, 96–99;