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Sighting record / 1968

Amarillo Plate-Like Object: Truck Stop Manager, Air Force Nurse and Gate Sentry (1968)

March 6, 1968 · U.S. Highway 287 at Pullman Road and the South Gate of Amarillo Air Force Base, east Amarillo, Potter County, Texas, United States
28Thinly documented UAP Disc / saucer 10 sources

March 6, 1968. Early morning on the east side of Amarillo, Texas. A truck stop manager on Highway 287 watched something hang motionless in the sky. It looked like the edge of a plate. Then it tilted, showed its face, and sped away into the clouds. Less than an hour later, an Air Force nurse heard a roar like a wind tunnel and stopped her car to look. At the South Gate of Amarillo Air Force Base, a sentry saw a yellow object drop from a dark cloud, turn at a right angle and climb straight back up. Project Blue Book gathered four report forms. NICAP lists it among the cases Blue Book left Unidentified.

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Context

Amarillo Air Force Base sat on the east side of Amarillo, Texas. Since 1955 it had been a Strategic Air Command B-52 base. Its 461st Strategic Wing would be inactivated on March 25, 1968, and the base would close on December 31.

Sources (10, most influential first)

  1. Plate-Like Object Observed (Amarillo, Texas, 6 March 1968) · NICAP · Research organisation · org report
  2. 1968 chronology · NICAP · Research organisation · org report
  3. Amarillo report (Blue Book document list) · NICAP· 2014-03-01 · Research organisation · org report
  4. Project Blue Book documents, Amarillo, 6 March 1968 · NICAP · Official document · gov doc
  5. Project Blue Book case file, Amarillo, Texas, March 1968 · Fold3 · Official document · gov doc