Arrey, New Mexico: Moore and Navy balloon crew track object with theodolite
At 10:30 a.m. on April 24, 1949, General Mills meteorologist Charles B. Moore and four Navy Skyhook balloon crewmen saw a white, round object cross the sky three miles north of Arrey, New Mexico; Moore tracked it for 60 seconds with a theodolite.
Background
At 10:30 a.m. on April 24, 1949, General Mills meteorologist Charles B. Moore and four Navy Skyhook balloon launch crewmen (Navy Chief Fire Controlman William Akers, Davidson, Fitzsimmons and Moorman) saw a white, round object, shadowed yellowish on one side, cross the sky from the south to the east three miles north of Arrey, New Mexico. Joseph Gordon Vaeth was present as the Navy representative in charge of ground handling. Moore tracked the object for 60 seconds with a theodolite. Its distance was unknown; assuming a distance of 57 miles, it would have had a velocity of 18,000 mph, a width of 40 feet and a length of 100 feet, which the entry calls speculative. The account follows the entry in George M. Eberhart's chronology UFOs and Intelligence (CUFOS) and the sources cited there; it is not an independent determination by From Beyond Space.