November 3, 1957 — nr. Trinity Site, White Sands Proving Ground, NM
8:00 p.m. Army Specialist 3rd Class Henry R. Barlow and Specialist 3rd Class Forest R. Oakes, Army Garrison Detachment 5, are in a jeep patrol driving west near the site of the first A-bomb explosion, Trinity Site, in White Sands Proving Ground, New Mexico. They see a pulsating red light that turns to white, possibly 200– 300 feet in size and 4–5 miles away. It brightens and dims then sometimes goes out, rising in the sky from the ground or from about 50 feet over the bunker up to about 45° elevation until it looks like a star or point source. They watch it for 25 minutes before it disappears. Possibly Venus in the southwest, which sets at about 8:30 p.m. [Eberhart]
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Sources:
Alamogordo (N.M.) Daily News, November 5, 1957;
“White Sands MPs Spot ‘Oval Object’,” The Montana Standard, November 5, 1957, p. 1;
“Forget Sputnik — Saucers Are Back!,” Detroit (Mich.) Free Press, November 5, 1957, pp, 1, 9;
Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 238;
Donald Keyhoe, Flying Saucers: Top Secret, p. 116;
Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 169;
A. Schopick, A Study of Secondary Effects, p. 38;
Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1957 November 3rd–5th, The Author, 1997, pp. 18-19;
Brad Sparks, Blue Books Unknowns Catalogue, Case 1263, p. 254;
Michael Swords and Robert Powell, UFOs and Government, p. 259;
Kevin Randle, Levelland, 2021, pp. 27–31;
