Patrols Report Sighting
'Object' at White Sands
WHITE SANDS PROVING GROUND, N.M., Nov. 4 -- UPI
The White Sands Proving Ground announced today that a huge, oval object "nearly
as bright as the sun" was spotted Sunday hovering near bunkers used in the first atomic
bomb explosion.
The sightings were made 17 hours apart by two different military police
patrols on this southern New Mexico missile testing range. The first atomic bomb was
touched off on the northern edge of the area July 16, 1945.
The commanding officer of the MPs said some of the men heard radio
reports or seen newspaper accounts of saucer sightings in Texas.
Both sightings were in the area of abandoned bunkers used by
technicians who observed the world's first atomic explosion. The bunker are of
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until it was about 50 yards above the A-bomb bunkers, where it went out.
A few minutes later, "the object became real bright, like the sun, then fell
in an angle to the ground and went out,"
the patrol reported.
Penney said he had accompanied some of his MPs to the site today
but found no physical evidence of the object's visit.
Neither jeep patrol had motor trouble. Some drivers who
saw similar phenomena in Texas reported engine trouble.
Officials at White Sands said the phenomena had nothing to do
with any activity of the base.
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