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Sighting record / 1976

Cannon AFB Security Police UFO Sightings, Clovis, New Mexico, 1976

January 21, 1976 · Cannon Air Force Base, near Clovis, Curry County, New Mexico, United States
52Partially documented UAP Disc / saucer 22 sources 2 real photos 3 videos

January 21, 1976. Cannon Air Force Base, New Mexico. Before dawn, security police near the flight line reported two objects. Twenty-five yards across. Gold or silver. A blue light on top, a red light underneath, and a hole in the middle. Within hours the report sat in the log of the National Military Command Center. Over the next three nights, Clovis police counted objects by the dozen. A town marshal watched a silent light pass over his car. A student journalist later claimed to have seen saucers leave F-111s trailing behind. The Air Force said it was checking radar and weather inversion data. No answer was ever made public.

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Context

In January 1976, Cannon Air Force Base sat about 7 miles southwest of Clovis, in Curry County, New Mexico. The base flew F-111s. Project Blue Book had closed in 1969.

Sources (22, most influential first)

  1. NICAP 1976 Chronology · NICAP · Research organisation · org report
  2. NMCC memo, Cannon AFB, 21 January 1976 · NICAP · Research organisation · org report
  3. Researcher claims he has photo of 1976 UFO over Clovis · Eastern New Mexico News· 2006-06-17 · Press, book, documentary · news
  4. UFO incident resurfaces · Eastern New Mexico News· 2006-06-17 · Press, book, documentary · news
  5. 1976 Cannon Air Force Base · UFO Casebook · Wiki, blog, podcast · blog