Exploring UFO's Along Route 66 in Oklahoma: Submit Your Story

 This photograph was taken on October 16, 1957 near Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico. It showed  up in many newspapers of the time and in countless books since. In fact, on a wall with newspaper clippings from along the length of Route 66 at the museum in Clinton, Oklahoma there is a newspaper clipping showing this same image.  I ran across this a few years ago doing research on the Mother Road - it will come in handy - since I am planning to co-write a book on UFOS on Route 66.

I have seen on online reference of a person claiming to have taken this same phot in the 1990's in western Oklahoma. But as the images below show, it was in the newspapers decades before. Was it a secret US project? Not likely, since that profile did not match anything then and it still does not.  Just what was happening in 1957?  

Russia sent up the first satellite that month. And reports were coming into Project Blue Book from San Diego, Iowa, Alabama, Florida and New Mexico. Infact there is a file labeled "File 5031" and contains 4 photographs for October 16, 1957 near Alamogordo, New Mexico.  There is little information. For the color and shape it would seem to have been very hot and self-illuminated. Missiles did, despite claims to the contrary, did go awry but there is something odd in the Project Blue Book photos setting them aside from the one caught and sent to the newspapers. 

Clearly the lower image, and the hills behind, match the newspaper image. Just what the odd white trail like thing above the object is unclear. It is clear, from other reports, and the comet photo in the file, that an attempt was made to claim the object was a sighting of the Comet Encke, then visible in some skies. See this page for more details on the sighting and the photo (1957: Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico Sighting - Think AboutIts (thinkaboutitdocs.com)

October had many sightings but the standout events occur in November when the first truly widespread and major interferences with cars, electronics, and radios/radars were reported from all over. The presence of electromagnetic fields stopping cars in their tracks, people seeing egg shaped objects hovering, speeding and landing are truly fascinating. 

The images in PBB look like the one show here: the upper "object" is strange. If a cloud it is very bright given the level of contrast used in this image. Just what is the whole image showing? 

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