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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.

186 500225 1545 1555 14 R
Los Alamos,
New Mexico NE to SW
overhead
at from 4
to 10
miles
traveled w/a
fluttering
motion silver none
few secs to
2 mts none round
vary from
1/4" to small
airplane
very fast 500-
15-- mph (2)
187 500225 1655 1 R
Los Alamos,
New Mexico E to W
shiny
silvery 10-15 secs none round
about size of
B-25
fuselage slow speed
disappeared
behind trees (2)
188 500310 1800 1830 6 Unk
Phoenix,
Arizona SE
40,000-
50,000'
moved
upward at
60° angle
aluminum
or quick
silver Yes 10 mts none
oval or
oblong size of moon
extremely
high disappeared (2)
189 500305 1135 1300 4 R
Vaughn, New
Mexico traveled 195°
straight
flight white none 1 hr 25 mts none round
ping pong
ball at arm's
length
180 to 200
mph
ceased
observation (2)
190 500311 0100 1 R
Holloman
AFB, New
Mexico app 270°
about 30°
above
horizon at
distance
of 50
miles
straight
flight
changed
from light
orange to
blood red
to amber
to light
green none 5 mts none
ping pong
ball
ping pong
ball held at
arm's length
disappeared
from view (1) (2)
191 500316 1100 10 Unk
Farmington,
New Mexico N to NE
turned on
their axis &
maneuvered
up & down
bright
luminous
as tin foil none 3 -5 mts none
flat
spheriodic 1 to 6"
faster than
conventional
aircraft
discontinued
observation (2)
192 500316 1000 10 Unk
Farmington,
New Mexico NE
over
20,000'
skyward at
60° - 80°
bright
aluminum none 30 mts none
oval &
oblong
1/16" - 1/2"
held at arms
length
faster than
conventional
aircraft
gradually
disappeared (2)
193 500317 0310 1 R
Los Alamos,
New Mexico toward earth toward earth
reddish
then green none 1 sec none
appeared to fall
to earth (3)
194 500317 0308 1 R
Los Alamos,
New Mexico NE level flight
greenish
yellow none 3 secs none round
1/4 size of
full moon moderate
like light going
out (3)
195 500317 0307 1 R
Los Alamos,
New Mexico straight down
straight
down
orange &
green Yes
2 - 2 1/2
secs none tremendous
explosion on
impact with
earth or
disintegration (3)
196 500317 0445 1 R
Los Alamos,
New Mexico
formed an
arc
formed an
arc green none 5 secs none round quite small free fall fell toward earth (3)10/05/10AFOSI Summary of Sightings of Unknown Aerial Phenomena (raw data)Page 20 of 22

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