White Sands, New Mexico, November 25, 1952
THINK ABOUTIT UFO|UAP SIGHTINGS REPORT
1952: White Sands, New Mexico, the Windowed Craft over the Road
On the night of November 25, 1952, a soldier returning to White Sands Proving Ground from Beaumont Hospital saw flare-like lights ahead and then a green-centered ball sitting on the road 300 to 400 yards away. Three to five minutes later an object came toward him at 300 to 500 feet, made a right turn and shot nearly straight up.
He described two rows of brilliantly lit windows, six to eight per row, each five or six feet high, and no sound at all. The account comes from the White Sands Monthly Intelligence Summary.
Date: November 25, 1952
Sighting Time: About 8:30 p.m. (2030)
Day/Night: Night
Location: Road from Beaumont Hospital (Fort Bliss) to White Sands Proving Ground, New Mexico
Urban or Rural: Rural, desert road
No. of Entity(‘s): None reported
Entity Type: Not applicable
Entity Description: Not applicable
Hynek Classification: NL (Nocturnal Light)
Duration: Several minutes in total; the closest pass was brief
No. of Object(s): 1
Shape of Object(s): A craft with two rows of lit windows
Size of Object(s): Windows about 5–6 feet high; overall size not recorded
Color of Object(s): Green-centered ball at first; brilliantly lit windows
Distance to Object(s): A quarter to a half mile away at its closest, at 300–500 feet altitude
Height & Speed: 300–500 feet; right turn, then a climb at about 90 degrees
Number of Witnesses: 1
Special Features/Characteristics: Flare-like lights, then a green-centered ball on the road; two rows of 6–8 windows each; a right turn followed by a near-vertical climb; no sound
Case Status: Unexplained in the supplied file
Source: White Sands Monthly Intelligence Summary; McDonald list
Summary/Description: A soldier returning from Beaumont Hospital saw flare-like lights and a green-centered ball on the road, then an object with two rows of 6–8 lit windows that turned right and climbed at about 90 degrees without a sound.
Related Cases: Late-November military reports on the November 16th–30th page
DETAILED REPORT
The soldier was returning from Beaumont Hospital when he saw lights like flares ahead. A ball with a green center then appeared on the road, he estimated 300 to 400 yards away.
Three to five minutes later an object approached at 300 to 500 feet altitude, a quarter to a half mile away, and made a right turn. It then climbed at about 90 degrees into the sky. He saw two rows of brilliantly lit windows, six to eight in each row, each about five or six feet high. It made no sound.
The report appears in the White Sands Monthly Intelligence Summary. The supplied pages give no evaluation, no second witness and no follow-up. The previous listing of the case carried only the date and place.
RESEARCHER’S NOTES
White Sands 1952: Windows in the Dark on a Military Road
- Single witness: The account rests on one soldier. The summary does not name him or record whether he was questioned further.
- The first stage: Flares followed by a green ball at ground level may be the key to the first part of the encounter, and the file does not say whether any range activity was scheduled that night.
- Window detail: Counting the windows by row and estimating their height is a specific description for a night sighting, but the estimate is of a lit pattern, not a measured structure.
- Classification: At a quarter to a half mile the object was beyond close-encounter distance, so this is a nocturnal light with structure rather than a CE-I.
White Sands is an intelligence-summary entry with one witness and a vivid pattern of windows. Without a second observer or a range log for the night, it stays in the record as a detailed, unevaluated report.
“I can merely state that there were two rows of what appeared to be windows, brilliantly lighted, and I would estimate they were five to six feet in height and six to eight windows in each of the two rows.”
— Soldier’s statement, White Sands Proving Ground, November 25, 1952 (Blue Book file, OCR of a typed copy)
