July 24, 1957🇺🇸Sighting
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Las Cruces, New Mexico: White Sands flight safety chief sees large fast object

On 24 July 1957, White Sands missile flight safety director Nathan Wagner and his wife Alma, driving south of Las Cruces, New Mexico, watched a large, fast object at high altitude move east toward the Organ Mountains for 30 seconds.

Date
July 24, 1957
Location / Country
Type
Sighting

Background

White Sands missile flight safety director Nathan Wagner was driving with his wife Alma south of Las Cruces, New Mexico, when they saw a large, fast object at high altitude moving east toward the Organ Mountains. They watched it for 30 seconds until it disappeared. Eberhart cites NICAP, the El Paso Times of 30 July 1957 and NICAP's UFO Investigator of August/September 1957, which reported the sighting by the missile flight safety chief. 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.