New Mexico; 1949; April 24 1949; ufo; White Sands; Daylight Disc; Project Blue Book Unknown

Single panel intelligence dossier image for the April 24 1949 White Sands New Mexico sighting rendered in muted late-1940s color showing an isolated high-desert mud flat with flat pale cracked earth sparse scrub and distant mountains under a clear cloudless sky where aerologist Charles Moore in 1940s field clothes bends to the eyepiece of a tripod-mounted ML-47 theodolite 25-power tracking telescope while one Navy enlisted man points the instrument and three more look up and a small weather balloon drifts to one side, while high in the sky coming out of the sun is a gleaming white elongated ellipsoid about two and a half times as long as wide non-metallic and matte-bright shading to light yellow near its tail with a slight upward hook suggesting a sharp climb, with HUD overlays marking the white ellipsoid and its proportions and non-metallic surface and yellow tail, the azimuth rate of about 5 degrees per second and the held azimuth with elevation rising 25 to 29 degrees in a sharp climb, the ML-47 theodolite tracking that filled the field, the control balloon released 15 minutes later that drifted only 13 miles in 88 minutes proving it was not a balloon, the DD daylight disc classification and Blue Book Unknown 358, the five instrumented witnesses Charles Moore and four Navy men, the Vaeth 1956 and NICAP UFO Evidence 1964 source, and the Unexplained status, with a lower strip reading thinkaboutitdocs.com — UAP/Entity Archive by Date

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New Mexico Sightings

1949: UFO seen by observers at White Sands Proving Ground

Published: April 13, 2014 | Updated: August 27, 2026

THINK ABOUTIT UFO | UAP SIGHTING REPORT 1949: UFO seen by observers at White Sands Proving Ground The balloon men didn’t believe in flying...