June 6, 1949 —Fort Hood, TX
9:05 p.m. Two observation posts at Killeen Base, Fort Hood, Texas, spot a hovering orange light. Lts. Virgil Williams and Marvin L. Jones are at one site and Lts. Bernard G. Raferty and Alfred H. Jones are at the other. When they triangulate its location, they find it is 3 miles south of one observation post and 4.5 miles south of the plotting center, hovering 5,280 feet in the air. It is 30–70 feet in diameter. Suddenly it starts moving in level flight, then bursts into small particles. The duration is less than 3 minutes. This observation involves the first real-time triangulation of a UFO sighting. [Eberhart]
Incident 368(A):
Sources:
Brad Sparks and Jerome Clark, “The Southwestern Lights, Part Three,” IUR 10, no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 1985): 12;
Brad Sparks, Blue Books Unknowns Catalogue, Case 241, p. 66;
Thomas Tulien, ed., Proceedings of the Sign Historical Group UFO History Workshop, Sign Historical Group, November 2001, p. 43;
Jerome Clark, The UFO Encyclopedia, 3rd Ed., pp. 543, 1053;
Jerome Clark, The UFO Encyclopedia, 4th Ed., pp. 601, 1168;
