Orogrande, New Mexico: Cars stall on US 54 as egg-shaped object passes, witness feels heat

James W. Stokes, an electronics technician at Holloman AFB, was driving on US Highway 54 about 8 miles south of Orogrande, New Mexico, when his car radio faded and the car slowed as if the battery were failing. Six to twelve cars ahead had also stopped, their drivers looking at the sky, among them a Mr. Duncan and Allan D. Baker. Stokes saw a pearl-white oval or egg-shaped object about 500 feet wide with a slight purplish tinge, heading south at an estimated 1,500–2,000 mph and descending in a shallow dive to about 1,500–2,500 feet; at its closest it was about 2–5 miles away, then circled west and disappeared, and the same or another object repeated the course farther south. Duncan took 35mm film of the object; Stokes felt a wave of heat at closest approach and had a sunburn that evening which cleared up the next day. The Air Force called the report a hoax inspired by the Levelland sightings. Eberhart cites NICAP, Sparks, the Alamogordo Daily News of 5 November 1957, APRO and further literature. 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.