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AFOSI LaPaz Catalog raw data

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This document is a NICAP-hosted table of AFOSI raw data summarizing 209 sightings of unknown aerial phenomena, listed from January 1943 through May 1950. Most reports come from New Mexico sites such as Los Alamos, Sandia Base, Albuquerque, Alamogordo and Vaughn, with others from Camp Hood, Texas, and Arizona. For each sighting it records the observers, the reliability rating, direction, color, duration, shape, speed and how the object disappeared. It sorts the cases as green fireball phenomena, disks or variations, or probable meteors.

  • p. 1 …phemonena; (2) “disk” or variation; (3) Probable meteor 1 430119 2300 1 R Point of impact…
  • p. 3 …Gradual ascent white Yes none oval larger than meteor disappeared (1) 24 490217 app 100 VR…
  • p. 12 …1 - 2 secs none much larger than meteor burned out (1) 111 490915 0025 1 Unk…
  • p. 14 …2" - 2" in diameter app that of meteor went out like electric light (1) 128 491006…
  • p. 15 …none stationary but disappeared with speed of meteor disappeared from view (1) 146 491119 2152 1…
  • p. 16 …secs none round quite large slower than meteor faded out gradually (1) 153 491203 1805 1…
20 490130 app 1800
app
200 Unk & R
Amarillo,
Texas (Was
listed
incorrectly as
Alamogordo,
New Mexico) N to S
angle of
elev. 15°-
30° from
observer
gentle
descent Green 3 - 15 secs none ball
seemed to fizzle
out (1)
21 490130 1854 - 1900 10 Unk
Ft. Worth,
Texas N to S
13° above
horizon
30°
downward
from
horizon
green
trailing
sparks Yes 1 - 7 secs none
1/3 size of
full moon disintegration (1)
22 490214 1840 2 Unk
Canado, New
Mexico
somewhat
above
horizon
stationary
then fell in
slight curve
to W
brilliant
white
slightly
green
color Yes none
stationary
then fell in
slight curve
to W (1)
23 490217 1800 1 Unk
Grants, New
Mexico Southward
vertical
climb then
leveled off.
Gradual
ascent white Yes none oval
larger than
meteor disappeared (1)
24 490217
app
100 VR
Albuquerque,
New Mexico W to E
brilliant
white
shifting to
peach
color 6 mts none
round
shifting to
elipse
1 lunar
diameter disappeared (2)
25 490227 1905 1 R
Los Alamos,
New Mexico W to E
parallel to
earth
green-
white 2 secs none
not as fast
meteor
disappeared
abruptly (1)
26 490302 0010 1 R
Los Alamos,
New Mexico N to S
"low in
sky" horizontal light 2 secs none very fast
disappeared
behind trees (1) (3)
27 490303 0159 1 R
Los Alamos,
New Mexico straight down
straight
down
bright
green disappeared (1) (3)
28 490306 2100 2 Unk
Camp Hood,
Texas
from N 74°
W to N 81°
W
from 6°
41' above
horizon
blue-white
light Yes none oblong 2' by 1' Not known (1)
29 490306 2020 2 Unk
Camp Hood,
Texas N 40° E
59° above
horizon
blue-white
light none
ball like
flash basketball "fixed flash" (1)10/05/10AFOSI Summary of Sightings of Unknown Aerial Phenomena (raw data)Page 3 of 22

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