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ATIC NO. _____
DATE OF INFO 17 March 1950
AF NO. _____
LOCATION Kirtland AFB, N.Y.
REPORT NO. _____
SOURCE USAF Personnel
DATE OF REPORT 21 Mar 50
DATE IN TO ATIC _____
TIME OF SIGHTING 1500
COLOR Silver and dark
SHAPE _____
SPEED _____
MEASURE _____
SIZE Varied estimates
ALTITUDE 10,000' - 12,000' measured
COURSE N and NE
LENGTH OF TIME OBSERVED _____
NO. IN GROUP 3
TYPE OF OBSERVATION Ground
BOUND _____
MANEUVERS Tumbling motion ascending and descending.
PHOTOS SKETCHES _____

Temporary ATIC Form 329
(2 Jan 52)

RECEIVED
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

INFORMATION ONLY
17 March 1950
Farmington, New Mexico
(BALLOON) Observation

# Plastic UFOs and the "Stack of Coins"

A burst balloon has caused many a saucer scare, but the invasion of Farmington, New Mexico, on Saint Patrick's Day 1950 was one of the most dramatic. The "saucers" began to fly about 10:15 A.M. M.S.T., and soon filled the air. In numbers estimated from 500 to thousands, for the next hour the gleaming saucer-shaped objects soared over the town, moving erratically at incredible speeds, darting in and out among each other in what one writer has called "the greatest exhibition of m…

AF FORM 112-PART 3055
UNCLASSIFIED
AF 164178-1
AIR INTELLIGENCE INFORMATION REPORT
SUBJECT Unidentified Flying Objects
AREA REPORTED ON Albuquerque
DATE OF REPORT 21 March 1950
DATE OF INFORMATION 17 March 1950
EVALUATION A-1 *
PREPARED BY (Name) CARL C. MACHERNER, Capt., USAF
SOURCE Eighth Air Force Personnel
REFERENCES (General number, division, previous report, etc., as applicable)
SUMMARY: (Enter concise summary of report. Give significance in final one-sentence paragraph. List inclosures at lower left. Begin text of report on AF Form 112-Part II.)
1. On 17 March at 1500 hours from the ram…

UNCLASSIFIED
AF FORM 112-PART D
APPROVED 1 JUNE 1948
AIR INTELLIGENCE INFORMATION REPORT
DECLASSIFIED AFTER 12 YEARS
DOD DIR 5200.10
505-365304

|  INTERNATIONAL | REPORT NO. | PAGE 2  |
| --- | --- | --- |
|  Headquarters Eighth Air Force |  | 16475  |

1. On 17 March 1950 at 1500 hours an officer and three enlisted men from this command while on an administration trip made the following observations from the room in front of the base operations building at Kirtland AFB:

a. Captain Paul H. Buecher, Headquarters Eighth Air Force. It was watching aircraft flying in the waters when suddenly by …