May 24, 1950🇺🇸Military Encounter
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Holloman AFB, New Mexico: Crew sees eight objects, two filmed by cinetheodolites

On May 24, 1950, during an MX-674 Tarzon bomb test at Holloman AFB, New Mexico, Floyd Fannon and other USAF crew members saw eight unidentified objects; two cinetheodolite stations each filmed one object.

Date
May 24, 1950
Location / Country
Type
Military Encounter

Background

During an MX-674 Tarzon controllable vertical bomb test at Holloman AFB, Floyd Fannon and other USAF crew members saw eight unidentified objects and separately tracked and filmed two of them down the North American Aviation missile firing range. Project Twinkle cinetheodolite station P-8 filmed one object to the northeast for 6 frames (1.0 second), moving uniformly to the south. Station P-10, located 5.7 miles down range to the north and 7 feet higher, filmed a different object, so no triangulation was possible. Analysts estimated that the objects were higher than 40,000 feet, traveling more than 2,000 mph and over 300 feet in diameter. 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.