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PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD

|  1. DATE 12 May 52 | 2. LOCATION W of ROSWELL, New Mexico | 12. CONCLUSIONS ☐ Was Balloon ☐ Probably Balloon ☐ Possibly Balloon ☐ Was Aircraft ☐ Probably Aircraft ☑ Possibly Aircraft  |
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|  3. DATE-TIME GROUP Local 2045-2110 MST GMT 13/0345-0410 Z | 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION ☑ Ground-Visual ☐ Ground-Radar ☐ Air-Visual ☐ Air-Intercept Radar | ☐ Was Astronaut ☑ Probably Astronaut ☐ Possibly Astronaut  |
|  5. PHOTOS ☐ Yes ☑ No | 6. SOURCE AF T/Sgt | ☐ Other ☐ Insufficient Data for Evaluation ☐ Unknown  |
|  7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 25 min approx | 8. …

UNCLASSIFIED
28 MAY 1952

HEADQUARTERS STRATEGIC AIR COMMAND
OFFUTT AIR FORCE BASE
OMAHA, NEBRASKA

DINC 350

SUBJECT: Transmittal of SAC IR-22-52.

TO: Chief,
Air Technical Intelligence Center
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
ATTN: ATIAA-2c

Transmitted herewith is copy of SAC IR-22-52. Subject: FLYOBRPT. The original of this report has been dispatched to Director of Intelligence, Headquarters USAF, Washington 25, D.C.

FOR THE COMMANDING GENERAL:

Hal E. Biggs
MAJOR, USAF
Asst Adj Gen

1 Incl
a/s

DOWNGRADED
DECLASSIFIED AFTER 12 YEAR
DOD DIR 5200.10

UNCLASSIFIED

7-3712-48

COUNTRY United States
REPORT NO. IR-22-52
(LEAVE BLANK) 454882.
AIR INTELLIGENCE INFORMATION REPORT
SUBJECT FLYOSRPT
AREA REPORTED ON Roswell, New Mexico
FROM (Agency) 6th Bomb Wing, Medium, Intelligence
DATE OF REPORT 15 May 1952
DATE OF INFORMATION 12 May 1952
EVALUATION B-3
PREPARED BY (Officer) Capt. George L. Colby, Chief Reporting Unit
T/Sgt. Raymond Bare, AF-13257279
REFERENCES (Control number, directive, previous report, etc., as applicable) N/A
SUMMARY: (Enter concise summary of report. Give significance in final one-sentence paragraph. List inclosures at lower left. Begin text of rep…

UNCLASSIFIED
AIR INTELLIGENCE INFORMATION REPORT
0454382

FROM (Agency) | REPORT NO.
6th Bomb Wing, Medium Intelligence | IR-22-52 | PAGE 1 OF 1 PAGES

1. The object at first appeared to be a star, but after a few minutes Sgt. Bare noticed that its blue-green color changed in intensity from very bright to dim. The object pursued a definite course, which it repeated three times while Sgt. Bare was watching it. When the object was first sighted it appeared to be about 20,000 or 30,000 feet above the mountains at Ruidoso, New Mexico. It appeared to have two motions; one, a swaying movement from S…

UNCLASSIFIED
IN DESCENT LIGHT GREW
DIM AND THE OBJECT APPEARED
FLAT OR AS A STRAIGHT LINE.

UNCLASSIFIED

OBJECTION APPEARED ABOUT 10 YEARS
DID NOT BE CONSIDERED

UNCLASSIFIED

UNCLASSIFIED

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A-154882
S-T-A-T-E-M-E-N-T

On Monday, 12 May 1952, during the period 2045 - 2110 hours MST, I was sitting in a car at the intersection of Pennsylvania Avenue and 5th Street in Roswell, New Mexico. As I glanced out of the car to the west I observed a very bright glowing object in the sky. The object seemed to be at an altitude of about 25,000 feet over the mountains east of Ruidoso, New Mexico, about 50 miles west of Roswell.

The object at first appeared to be a star, but after a few minutes I noticed that its blue-green color rapidly changed in intensity from very bright to dim.

The objec…