Minot and the Night on the Missile Field
On the night of 24 October 1968 several security patrols on the missile field of this North Dakota base reported a glowing object hanging over the silos. Ground radar held a return, and the crew of a B-52 on approach saw it both on their own radar and with their eyes. The episode entered the Project Blue Book files with an unusually full set of documents: statements from sixteen men, radar film and duty reports. The official explanation is plasma and the star Sirius. It does not account for the agreement between ground and airborne radar, and the case remains one of the most cited military files in the archive.
Socorro and Lonnie Zamora's Landing
On 24 April 1964 Officer Lonnie Zamora was chasing a speeder south of Socorro when he heard a roar and saw flame beyond a hill. Coming closer, he made out a white object standing on legs in an arroyo, shaped like an egg on end, with two small figures in white beside it. Then came a roar, and the object rose and went off to the south-west. What it left behind was four pressed depressions where the legs had stood, scorched brush, and smaller prints. All of it was photographed and measured that same day, before the press arrived. J. Allen Hynek, who ran Project Blue Book, called Zamora the best witness he had met, and the case was closed as unexplained — one of very few in the project's files.
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