May 24, 1950 — Holloman AFB, NM
During an MX-674 Tarzon controllable vertical bomb test at Holloman AFB, New Mexico, Floyd Fannon and other USAF crew members see eight unidentified objects. They separately track and film two of the objects down the North American Aviation missile firing range. Project Twinkle cinetheodolite station P-8 films one object to the northeast for 6 frames (1.0 sec) moving uniformly to the south. Cinetheodolite station P-10, located 5.7 miles down range to the north from P-8 and 7 feet higher, films another object, hence no triangulation is possible. Analysts estimate that the objects were higher than 40,000 feet, traveling more than 2,000 mph, and over 300 feet in diameter.[Eberhart]
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Brad Sparks, Blue Books Unknowns Catalogue, Case 375, p. 91;
Timothy Good, Above Top Secret, pp. 354–355;
Bruce Maccabee, “The White Sands Films,” IUR 21, no. 1 (Spring 1996): 22–25;
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NICAP, “Cinetheodolite Film Taken by Tracking Station”;
