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Unexplained

Circle over Radium Springs, NM

Investigated by a competent body and left unresolved. The rarest grade, and never awarded by us — only recorded.

The report, as filed

Radium Springs, New Mexico. 10:50 p.m. Witnesses: one Las Cruces policeman, one Dona Ana County Deputy Sheriff. One round object--changing from red to green to blue to white-- rose vertically from a mountain top. Sighting lasted 10 minutes.

Held as-reported from Project Blue Book, United States Air Force. Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.

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What would the paper say?

Sightings from the Project Blue Book era (through 1969) live in Record Group 341 at the National Archives. Through Aletheca, the house instrument, anyone can commission the request — filed, chased, and published in the open, refusals included. The draft goes over already written: the records sought, and the date window they would live in.

Routed to: National Archives and Records Administration · records window 1957-11-03 → 1957-11-20

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September 28, 2015 · 12:00 AM · OTHER

Radium Springs, NM

I was walking along the road at Leasburg Dam State Park in Radium Springs, New Mexico. I just happened to look to my right and an object flew past me on the other side of the railroad track. It was shaped like a thimble with a darker slate blue color, flat on the bottom, straight up sides, round on top, around 10 feet tall and 6 to 7 feet wide. It had no wings or propeller with no noise coming from it at all. When it reached a valley far ahead it made about 180 degree turn back towards me and landed in the valley. But when it was doing that it's color and shape changed into a medium gray rectangle. I was scared on account of two reasons, trespassing on RR property and by the craft itself. But 2 days later I walked down the railroad track to the valley. But the property was fenced and I could not get a total view of the valley and I did not want to get into trouble for trespassing while looking for imprints in any soft soil. At first in the back of my mind I thought that it was a drone but drones have wings of some sort, propellers and they make noise when they are that close. I spoke with two Rangers and one said that he has not seen any drones here and the other one says that the State prohibits people from flying drones out of the park.