# March 2, 1967 — Holloman AFB / White Sands Missile Range — Two Radars Plot 20 Objects / Condon Case 16 / Radar Chaff? **URL:** https://uapdiscovery.discourse.group/t/march-2-1967-holloman-afb-white-sands-missile-range-two-radars-plot-20-objects-condon-case-16-radar-chaff/500 **Category:** Blue Book Unknowns **Created:** [March 1, 2026, 11:04pm UTC](https://uapdiscovery.discourse.group/t/march-2-1967-holloman-afb-white-sands-missile-range-two-radars-plot-20-objects-condon-case-16-radar-chaff/500 "2026-03-01T23:04:35Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Page:** 1
### Author: ![jeffknox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e47c2d/32.png) [@jeffknox](https://uapdiscovery.discourse.group/u/jeffknox) #### Post date: [March 1, 2026, 11:04pm UTC](https://uapdiscovery.discourse.group/t/march-2-1967-holloman-afb-white-sands-missile-range-two-radars-plot-20-objects-condon-case-16-radar-chaff/500/1 "2026-03-01T23:04:35Z")
![03021967-WhiteSandsNM-SightingMapwPhotos](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/uapdiscovery/original/2X/2/2db6939473b165cea3c6a5fee15445db81032b2c.jpeg) March 2, 1967 — Holloman AFB / White Sands Missile Range 10:25 a.m.–1:30 p.m. Robert English, sitting in a gas station at Apache Summit in Otero County, New Mexico, calls Holloman AFB to report seeing several groups of 30–40 “silvery specks” passing overhead to the southwest. (He continues watching them until 1:30 p.m.) The base sends up two aircraft, but neither can see any objects. At 10:55 a.m., two range surveillance radars, one at Holloman AFB, the other at Elephant Mountain near Orogrande, plot four objects 11.5 miles east-northeast of Tularosa (and 5 miles south of the visual sighting) that appear to be flickering on and off. Both radars later plot three intermittent targets over Mescalero. At 11:08, both radars plot an object east-southeast of Ruidoso that drifts eastward 3–4 miles in 10 minutes at 25,000 feet; it then moves south at a speed of Mach 1.2. White Sands Mission Control radar continues to follow this object on a circular path until it abruptly climbs to 80,000 feet; it appears to go out of range around 11:31 a.m. at 100,000 feet. At 11:20 a.m., electronics technician Duane Bakke observes a saucer-shaped object moving away from him that disappears behind Alamo Peak near Cloudcroft; his line of sight is approximately on the circular track traced by Mission Control radar. At 11:21 a.m., both radars briefly show two stationary objects that are flickering. Although there are some discrepancies in the radar reports, the activity cannot be attributed to a release of radar chaff or equipment malfunction. [Eberhart] Record Card: ![03021967-WhiteSandsNM-BBCard](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/uapdiscovery/original/2X/f/febbe8f24429079f6db91f214b3a6884f2b13ebc.jpeg) Statement on Radar Chaff: ![03021967-WhiteSandsNM-BBRadarChaff](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/uapdiscovery/original/2X/3/3930dc3a293750b62e7f96c37c6c8b63f664e828.jpeg) Sources: “29 Sight UFOs over White Sands Range,” El Paso (Tex.) Times, March 5, 1967, p. 1; ![03021967-WhiteSandsNM-El_Paso_Times_1967_03_05_1](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/uapdiscovery/original/2X/3/35d272ae60d5134f2c9856d940b3ee9a7b18392b.jpeg) > **[El\_Paso\_Times\_1967\_03\_05\_1](https://www.newspapers.com/article/el-paso-times-elpasotimes196703051/192458178/)** > > Clipping found in El Paso Times published in El Paso, Texas on 1967-03-05. El\_Paso\_Times\_1967\_03\_05\_1 “Those UFO’s,” El Paso (Tex.) Times, March 6, 1967, p. 4; ![03021967-WhiteSandsNM-El_Paso_Times_1967_03_06_4](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/uapdiscovery/original/2X/9/93c9c16c9369ff28b24bb0cb63a9ef113671bf4e.jpeg) > **[El\_Paso\_Times\_1967\_03\_06\_4](https://www.newspapers.com/article/el-paso-times-elpasotimes196703064/120009348/)** > > Clipping found in El Paso Times published in El Paso, Texas on 1967-03-06. El\_Paso\_Times\_1967\_03\_06\_4 Brad Sparks, Blue Book Unknowns File, Case 1722 , p. 322; ![03021967-WhiteSandsNM-Sparks-Case1722-p322](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/uapdiscovery/original/2X/a/a286076b670f4586ff6a2bf15c18db72bb389793.png) Edward Condon, Final report of the scientific study of unidentified flying objects conducted by the University of Colorado, pp. 150–151, 291–295; [Case 16] ![03021967-WhiteSandsNM-Condon-p150](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/uapdiscovery/original/2X/b/b5fc01dcd70d493d96d9ce6eb183cae66f656dbc.jpeg) ![03021967-WhiteSandsNM-Condon-p151](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/uapdiscovery/original/2X/7/7bf5b7bafa684cf7a983b7b8a98ebe8547087db2.jpeg) ![03021967-WhiteSandsNM-Condon-p291](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/uapdiscovery/original/2X/0/03a57852cda07e3d7ac008aea3c6dccd6742e3bc.jpeg) ![03021967-WhiteSandsNM-Condon-p292](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/uapdiscovery/original/2X/f/f4e0775bb346e26a9d9255c249979459b151b704.jpeg) ![03021967-WhiteSandsNM-Condon-p293](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/uapdiscovery/original/2X/8/83ed0d0ba518ec318332cb687d838a694c5cc14d.jpeg) ![03021967-WhiteSandsNM-Condon-p294](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/uapdiscovery/original/2X/e/e6902f33ab0c72f7bd5fd4b90e9f1116fca14d35.jpeg) ![03021967-WhiteSandsNM-Condon-p295](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/uapdiscovery/original/2X/2/2420daf166d25d13e14e3ea1de36333d657be650.jpeg) Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume 2, 2001, p.58; ![03021967-WhiteSandsNM-UFOEv2-p58](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/uapdiscovery/original/2X/6/67fa02c1caaf656a31ccba15b954e365d7f1522c.jpeg) NICAP, “Two Radars Plot 20 Objects”; > **[UFO Report](http://www.nicap.org/670302alamo_dir.htm)**