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Army Reports Huge UFO Hovering Over First Atomic Bomb Explosion Site | UFO CHRONICLE – 1957

'Huge Oval-Shaped' UFO Hovering Over A-Bomb Bunker at Trinity Site | UFO CHRONICLE – 1957

Motorists Were Terrified By 'Hovering UFO' Report Police | UFO CHRONICLE – 1957

Egg Shaped Objects [UFOs] Reported By Many Sections of State

Enormous, Egg-Shaped UFO Sighted Near Missile Testing Site | UFO CHRONICLE – 1957

Egg-Shaped UFO Kills Car Engines & Headlights | UFO CHRONICLE 11-4-1957

Huge UFO Scares West Texans | UFO CHRONICLE – 1957

Egg-Shaped UFO Stalls Cars On Highway | UFO CHRONICLE – 1957

UFO sightings at White Sands Missile Range | UFO CHRONICLE – 1957

AISS UFO Report - White Sands Proving Grounds (Pg 1) 11-13-1957

UFO Sightings on November 3, 1957

By Kevin Randle
A Different Perspective
12-21-14

In my quest to verify UFO information that has been reprinted and analyzed for years, and as I was working on my last UFO book, I began looking at the UFO sightings at White Sands Missile Range on November 3, 1957. To put this into context, the Levelland sightings took place during the evening and night of November 2. About the time the sightings were ending in Levelland, they were beginning at White Sands some 250 miles away. Those who made the first reports in New Mexico had not heard of the sightings in Texas and were unaware of what was happening.

Two MPs on patrol out near the Trinity Site, on the northern edge of the missile range saw something strange. In a sworn statement given to his commanding officer written on the day of the event, November 3, Glenn Toy said:

At about 0238 – 0300 Sunday Morning [November 3, 1957] I, CPL X [Glenn H. Toy] and PFC Y [James Wilbanks] were on patrol in Range Area when we noticed a very bright object high in the sky. We were proceeding north toward South Gate and object kept coming down toward the ground. Object stopped approximately fifty (50) yards from the ground and went out and nothing could be seen. A few minutes later object became real bright (like the sun) then fell in an angle to the ground and went out. Object was approximately seventy-five (75) to 100 yards in diameter and shaped like an egg. Object landed by bunker area approximately three (3) miles from us. Object was not seen again. /END OF STATEMENT

Wilbanks also gave a statement to his commander. Later Toy would be interviewed by an Air Force investigator but Wilbanks was unavailable. According to the files, he was on a three-day pass. Thinking about it, and knowing what I know about Army regulations, this made no sense to me. A three-day pass has a limited travel radius because the Army didn’t want soldiers attempting to travel farther than was safe. They didn’t want soldiers killed in traffic accidents. Besides that the soldier had to leave contact information. Had the Army wanted him to return, they could have gotten him back so that the Air Force could interview him. Why hadn’t that been done?

According to one source who had been there in 1957, Wilbanks was not available because he was in the hospital, the result of the sighting. That information was kept out of the Air Force file and to cover the point, the story of the three-day pass was created.

For those who have only bothered to look at the Air Force file on the case, we see that these two soldiers were young, Toy was 21 (according to one document in the Project Blue Book files) at the time and Wilbanks younger. The Air Force thought that discussions of flying saucers might have influenced their reports by, according to the Air Force records, “the famous Levelland case,” though nothing had been reported prior to Toy and Wilbanks’ sighting. Both suggested they had heard nothing about this until after the event.

The Air Force eventually solved the sighting. According to the Project card, Toy and Wilbanks were “very young (18 20), impressionable & on duty in a lonely, isolated desert post. Interviewers agreed that their sightings were magnified out of proportion.” According to the Air Force, it was the moon.

To get to that point, the Air Force ignored the information from the witnesses which suggested that the object was close to the ground. They ignored the estimate of the size and that there were references on the ground to help Toy and Wilbanks in those estimates. It wasn’t as if the object was a pinpoint of light in a dark sky with no points of reference.

While it seems that the Air Force made a solid investigation, they actually spent little time on it, sent a single officer to White Sands, and then slapped an explanation on it as quickly as possible. Reinhold Schmidt who claimed to have been taken on-board a UFO that had landed in Nebraska in the days that followed the White Sands sightings, was interviewed by officers from the Continental Air Defense Command and Army Intelligence. For some reason they thought this case more important, though Schmidt had a shady background and he was talking about seeing the inside of the craft, escorted by alien creatures.

The point here? The Air Force, in 1957, was not engaged in investigating UFOs, but was more interested in offering explanations. These cases prove the point. Ignore the reliable reports from military personnel, slap ridiculous explanations on them with little or no real investigation, and move onto the obvious frauds which can be explained easily. Make it seem as if there is a real interest in all UFO cases, but remember, they controlled the sighting at White Sands. It wasn’t very dramatic so there wasn’t a widespread interest in it.

Instead, make a real show of investigating a case that was an obvious fraud. Send in several officers and then explain the sighting with solid information. It creates a mindset in the general public that allows the Air Force to avoid having to answer any tough questions about UFOs. It buries the important sightings at White Sands where people were injured by the UFO (this would be the Stokes UFO sighting on November 5 not far from Alamogordo and that might include Wilbanks), and focuses on the ridiculous.

These White Sands sightings deserve another look. They deserve a proper investigation and there are enough problems with the official files that show something more was happening there at the time. But then, the Air Force didn’t want an answer for the case, other than one they dreamed up. Looking at the facts might suggest something other than the moon.

Egg Shaped Objects [UFOs] Reported By Many Sections of State

New Mexicans Keep Eyes On The Sky (Header) - The New Mexican 11-6-1957

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New Mexicans Keep Eyes On The Sky (Body) - The New Mexican 11-6-1957

New Mexicans Keep Eyes On The Sky (-Cont) - The New Mexican 11-6-1957

By The New Mexican
11-6-1957

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Egg-Shaped UFO Stalls Cars On Highway | UFO CHRONICLE – 1957

Enormous, Egg-Shaped UFO Sighted Near Missile Testing Site | UFO CHRONICLE – 1957

Huge UFO Lands on Highway in Front of Motorists; Kills Engines, Lights | UFO CHRONICLE – 1957

Egg-Shaped UFO Stalls Cars On Highway | UFO CHRONICLE – 1957

Egg-Shaped UFO Stalls Car On Highway - Alamogordo Daily News 11-5-1957 - www.theufochronicles.com

'Frankly, I Was Scared,'
Says Stokes of Experience with UFO

"It all happened so fast that I don't know whether I can give you the answers you want or not," was the way that James Stokes, Alamogordo, opened an interview this morning relative to the unidentified flying object he saw yesterday afternoon

By Alamogordo Daily News
11-5-1957

near Orogrande. "The whole experience is weird, and frankly I was scared to death, but I'll tell you what I can," he said.

Stokes reported that while driving on Highway 54 about 10 miles south of Orogrande yesterday afternoon, at 1:10, he noticed that his car radio began to fade out, and then the engine of his car slowed, and finally quit.

There It Was

"I thought it was strange, but did noticed that other cars had pulled off, so I did too, and the motor of my car quit entirely. I got out of the car and noticed another fellow pointing toward the sky, so I had a look myself. There it was. Coming in from the northeast was the object. It swooped on down to Orogrande and headed out north. It disappeared quickly. We watched skyward, and it came in once more on the same path, and headed out north once more. We watched it until it disappeared, and that is all there is to it.

"The object was rather egg-shaped, the color of an egg or perhaps 'mother of pear' color, it was definitely a solid, material thing, but there was no noise, no smoke not vapor trail."

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Egg-Shaped UFO Stalls Cars On Highway (Body) - Alamogordo Daily News 11-5-1957

Egg-Shaped UFO Stalls Cars On Highway (-cont) - Alamogordo Daily News 11-5-1957

Scientists Tracked Flying Saucer [UFO] Over New Mexico | UFO CHRONICLE | 2-22-1950

Scientists Tracked Flying Saucer Over New Mexico - Farmington Daily Times, The 2-22-1950

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By Commander Robert B. McLaughlin, USN
True Magazine / The Farmington Daily Times
2-22-1950

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Flying Saucer
is Found in New Mexico

Don Pedro Sighting: UFO or Air Force Missile?

By Chris Caskey
The Union Democrat
9-14-12

As Donna Stensland drove to work at 7:30 a.m. Thursday morning, she was prepared for a typical day working at her housekeeping business. What she got instead was an experience that was out of this world.

While approaching the Don Pedro dam along Highway 132, Stensland said she saw something large reflecting sunlight that appeared to be moving over the hilltops. Then she could make out what she described as a coal-colored, cylindrical object moving slowly before disappearing to the south.

“It freaked me out,” said Stensland, who has never seen an unidentified flying object before. “Never in my life have I witnessed something this crazy weird.”

Officials with multiple military outlets said what she likely witnessed was the result of a missile test at a New Mexico Air Force base that caught the attention of thousands of people and multiple news outlets in the Southwest.

Though according to Stensland’s account, the phenomenon appeared much closer, just over the nearby ridges.

“I was looking at (what looked like) a big giant wine bottle without the elongated head … as if it was going at helicopter speed. I thought, there’s no way I’m seeing what I think I’m seeing,” Stensland said. “All of the sudden it just shot off. It just vanished like it went into a cloud. … But the sky was clear.” . . .

VIDCAST: Explosions and Reports of a Crash in Association with Juno Launch Explained?

By Bob Christie
AP
9-13-12

. . . The "explosion" was a normal separation of the first and second stages of the unarmed Juno ballistic missile that was fired at 6:30 a.m. MT from Fort Wingate near Gallup, N.M., said Drew Hamilton, a spokesman for the U.S. Army's White Sands Missile Range. The expended first stage landed in a designated area of U.S. Forest Service land. The Juno missile was then targeted by advanced versions of the Patriot missile fired from White Sands, about 350 miles (560 kilometers) away, as part of a test. Two of the missiles were fired and hit the incoming Juno missile, said Dan O'Boyle, a spokesman for the Redstone Arsenal in Alabama, which was in charge of the Patriots used in the test. The Patriot missiles kill incoming targets by direct strike and don't explode. The rising sun backlit the Juno missile's contrail and provided a spectacular morning sight for early risers across the region. . . .

Missile Engineer Sees UFO - Xenia Daily Gazette 10-11-1958

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By Xenia Daily Gazette
10-11-1958

Confusion Over Reported Missile Crash in Saguache County; "...White Sands Told State Patrol to 'Stand Down'"

By www.krdo.com
9-13-12

SAGUACHE COUNTY, Colo. - Colorado State Patrol received a report of a plane crash Thursday but White Sand Missile Range, who conducted a missile test Thursday, says it had nothing to do with their missile testing.

White Sands Missile Range conducted a test Thursday morning that produced a contrail visible throughout Western United States. The Juno missile was launched from Fort Wingate near Gallup N.M., and flew to White Sands Missile Range to be intercepted by the PAC-3.

Meanwhile, someone called 911 to report what they thought was a plane crash in Saguache County around 6:40 a.m., Colorado State Patrol spokesman Trooper Josh Lewis told our sister station in Denver, KMGH.

Lewis said officials at the U.S. Army's White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico told them it is a test missile.

However, Public Affairs Specialist Cammy Montoya at White Sands told 7NEWS the missile was not theirs and that the Juno performed as expected. NORAD also said that nothing crashed in Colorado Thursday morning.

Trooper Lewis said he did not have an exact address for the crash because White Sands told State Patrol to "stand down." . . .

Juno Missile Test at White Sands 9-13-12

By www.kztv10.com
9-13-12

TUSCON - A test launch at New Mexico's White Sands Missile Range sparked UFO reports Thursday morning.

The launch produced a contrail visible from as far away as Phoenix, Las Vegas, Salt Lake City and and Tucson.

The test of the Patriot Advanced Capability 3 or PAC-3 missile, was conducted using a Juno missile as a target.

The Juno was launched from Fort Wingate near Gallup and flew to White Sands Missile Range to be intercepted by the PAC-3.

The sunlight lit up the contrail from the Juno, creating a light show.

The Juno performed as expected.

This was the 14th time a large ballistic target missile has been fired from Fort Wingate since 1998. . . .

By St. George News
9-13-12

ST. GEORGE – White Sands Missile Range conducted a missile test today producing a contrail visible from as far away as Phoenix, Las Vegas and  Salt Lake City.

According to the public Affairs Office for the White Sands Missile Range, the test of the Patriot Advanced Capability 3 or PAC-3 missile was conducted using a Juno missile as a target. The Juno was launched from Fort Wingate near Gallup N.M., and flew to White Sands Missile Range to be intercepted by the PAC-3.

The sunlight lit up the contrail from the Juno creating a light show.

The Juno performed as expected. This was the fourteenth time a large ballistic target missile has been fired from Fort Wingate since 1998. The contrail has not always been visible from so far away depending upon the time of day and atmospheric conditions. . . .

Former Nuclear Weapons Expert Was Told Roswell UFO Recovery Involved an Alien Craft

By Robert L. Hastings
www.ufohastings.com
© 9-20-09 – 2012

Persons familiar with my three decades of research on the UFO-Nukes Connection know that declassified U.S. Air Force, FBI and CIA documents, as well as eyewitness testimony from ex-Air Force personnel, confirm an intermittent but ongoing UFO presence at America’s nuclear weapons sites. Indeed, some of the former/retired Minuteman missile launch and targeting officers I have interviewed unequivocally state that, on a few occasions, those piloting the unidentified craft actually knocked our ICBMs off-line,
at least temporarily.

(See http://www.nicap.org/babylon/missile_incidents.htm)

Furthermore, as I and other researchers have noted, there also appears to be a link between nuclear weapons and the world-famous Roswell Incident.

At the time of the alleged UFO crash, in July 1947, nearby Roswell Army Airfield was home to the world’s only atomic bomber squadron, the 509th Bombardment Group. Only two years earlier, in August 1945, the elite unit had destroyed the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, effectively ending World War II. In July 1946, the squadron participated in Operation Crossroads, involving two atomic bombing exercises conducted in the Marshall Islands in the Pacific. By the summer of 1947, the 509th was routinely engaged in training designed to prepare it for future atomic conflict with America’s new postwar enemy, the Soviets.

Considering the great many nuclear weapons-related UFO sightings which have come to light—as described in various declassified documents and the military eyewitness testimony found in my book UFOs and Nukes—the atomic bombardment squadron aspect of the Roswell Incident is perhaps not that surprising.

Fortunately, a former, high-level nuclear weapons specialist has now provided dramatic, hitherto unknown information about the controversial case. In 1998, I conducted a taped interview with former Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) supervisor Chester “Chet” W. Lytle Sr., whose work in the early 1950s put him in the right place, at the right time, to hear a very interesting story about Roswell. Lytle told me that he was “absolutely” certain that the mysterious object secretly recovered in the New Mexico desert was an alien spacecraft. According to Lytle, the unimpeachable source of this information was none other than William H. Blanchard, the commander of Roswell Army Airfield at the time of the incident.

Atom Bomb Detonation Trinity Site, Alamogordo Test Range 7-16-1945

But we are getting ahead of ourselves. During World War II, Chet Lytle had provided engineering support for the seminal Manhattan Project, which produced the first atomic bomb. His company, Lytle Engineering, was secretly contracted by the U.S. Army to design and manufacture the explosive “lenses” used on the tower-mounted device detonated near Alamogordo, New Mexico, on July 16, 1945. The disc-shaped lenses uniformly focused a conventional high explosive blast inward, thereby crushing the two halves of the bomb’s plutonium core into a single “critical mass” and triggering a nuclear chain-reaction.

After the war, Lytle’s company continued to manufacture various components for nuclear weapons and was also involved with a number of other highly-classified military R&D projects, ranging from radar development to aircraft autopilot design. His own supervisory position with the AEC involved weapons-stockpiling activities related to the U.S. military’s burgeoning atomic and thermonuclear arsenal.

Because of these diverse, highly-sensitive activities over the years, Lytle held, at one time or another, Top Secret clearances with several government departments and agencies, including the Atomic Energy Commission, the Department of Defense, and the Central Intelligence Agency.

In January 1990, I was introduced to Lytle by UFO researcher Kevin Randle and his associate at the time, Donald Schmitt, during one of their many visits to New Mexico to investigate the Roswell Incident. Over dinner, Lytle unexpectedly and cryptically remarked to me that he had both direct and indirect knowledge of certain nuclear weapons-related UFO sightings. However, when I asked if he would consent to be interviewed about those incidents, he quickly declined, saying that he was reluctant to jeopardize ongoing relationships his company, now called Communications Diversified Incorporated, had with various departments of the U.S. government.

There the matter rested for several years. Between 1990 and 1996, I had dinner with Lytle three or four times, always in the company of Randle and, sometimes, Schmitt. On each occasion, I politely asked Chet if he would be willing to speak with me at length about his UFO-related experiences. Each time, he politely but firmly declined to be interviewed.

In September 1998—realizing that I would not have forever to pursue the matter, given Lytle’s advanced age—I doggedly called him at his office. Much to my surprise, he actually answered a few of my questions over the phone, so I quickly pressed him to grant me a full-length interview. After a few seconds of silence, he hesitantly agreed.

As I was ushered into Lytle’s spacious office, I noted several plaques on the walls. Each had been presented to his company by one U.S. government group or another, commemorating some aspect of its distinguished, decades-long service to the nation’s defense establishment.

After a few pleasantries, I clipped a small microphone onto Lytle’s tie and began to ask him questions about the nuclear weapons-related UFO incidents to which he had alluded in 1990. As soon as he began speaking, I knew that my frustrating, drawn-out efforts to persuade him to go on-the-record had been worth the wait. Over the next two hours, he divulged some of the most intriguing information I had ever heard. . . .