Project Blue Book Archive

Page ID (PID)	MAXW-PBB1-972
Collection	NARA-Maxwell


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Roll Description	Maxwell Blue Book 1
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If the data as r.ported by La Paz arc correct, then we do have a strange
. phenomena here indeed.
Astronomer MM has not seen any. He happened to be with me, how-
ever, while'' I interviewed some laymen who had seen some aluminum-colored discs.  ''
He was most impressed by iho consistency of their stories.
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Astronomer NN is Clyde Tombaugh, who has already been identified in
the Life article. He has made two sightings, the first of which is ''the one
reported in Life magazine and the second was reported to me. The details can
be obtained by sending him a questionnaire, as Ipe is willing to cooperate.
Briefly, while at Tulescopo No. 3 at UMte Sands, he observed an object of -6
magnitude (four times brighter than the planet Venus .at its brightest) travelling
from the zenith to the southern horizon in about three seconds.'' The object 
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executed the same manuevers as the nighttime luminous object which was reported
in Life magazine.. No sound was associated with either of the sightings.
Mr. Tombaugh,is in charge of optics design and rocket tracking at
White Sands Proving Ground. He said that if he is requested officially, which
can''be done by a letter to the Oommanding General, Flight Determination
Laboratory,, Twhite Sands Proving Ground, Las Cruces, New, Mexico, he will be
. able to put his telescopes at White Sands at the disposal of the Air Force.
.He can have observers alerted and
ready to take photographs should some object .
appear, I strongly recommend that this letter be sent.
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Astronomer 00 %3 a meteor observer at the Harvard Meteor Station
New Mexico. Although relatively''new on the job, he observed two lights while
on watch at 1:30 a.m. that moved much too fast fqr a plane and much too slow
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