Circle over Rodeo, NM
Investigated by a competent body and left unresolved. The rarest grade, and never awarded by us — only recorded.
The report, as filed
Rodeo, New Mexico. 10 p.m. Witnesses: Dr. George Walton, physical chemist, and wife. Two round white objects flew side-by-side, at 30-50' altitude, pacing the witnesses' car for 6 minutes. Oct. 4, Middletown, Ohio. Witness: Tucker. Case missing from official files.
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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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 1965-09-22 → 1965-10-09
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Rodeo, NM
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April 8, 2014 · 8:45 PM · LIGHT
Rodeo, NM
Reddish-orange craft with no blinking nav lights followed at night by three (military) jets with blinking nav lights.