March 13, 1949 — Sandia Base, NM — MPs at Sandia Base Observe Spherical Object w/Tail

March 13, 1949 — Sandia Base, New Mexico
9:53 p.m. Two MPs guarding the Technical Area at Sandia Base, New Mexico, see a silent, spherical object, bluish- or greenish-white, with a flaming blue tail twice as long as the body, which is apparently half the size of the full moon. [Eberhart]

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Source:
Brad Sparks, Blue Book Unknowns File, Case 182, p. 52;

NICAP, “March 13, 1949, Sandia Base, NM, OSI Case 40”;