UFO sighting

               CUFON - UFO INFORMATION SERVICE SEATTLE, WASHINGTON

                  Freedom of Information Act Document Files

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                              COMPLAINT FORM

                            ADMINISTRATIVE DATA

TITLE                                        DATE                     TIME

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KIRTLAND AFB, NM, 8 Aug - 3 sep 80         2 - 9 sept 80               1200

Alleged Sighting of Unidentified

Aerial Lights in Restricted Test Range.      PLACE

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                                           AFOSI Det 1700, Kirtland AFB, NM

                                           NOW RECEIVED

                                           Yes  in person

                                           SOURCE OF EVALUATIOM

                                           Major Ernest E. Rdwards

                                           RESIDENCE OR BUSINESS ADDRESS PHONE

                                           Commander, 1608 SPS, Manzann  4-7516

                                           Kirtland AFB, NM

                                           CR 44  APPLIES

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REMARKS                       SUMMARY OF INFORMATION

1. On 2 Sept 80, SOURCE related on 8 Aug 80, three Security Policemen assigned

to 1608 SPS, KAFB, NM, on duty inside the Manzano Weapons Storage Area sighted

an unidentified light in the air that traveled from North to South over the

Coyote Canyon area of the Department of Defense Restricted Test Range on KAFB,

NM.  The Security Policemen identified as:SSGT STEPHEN FERENZ, Area Supervisor,

ATC MARTIM W.RIST and AMN ANTHONY D.FRAZIER, were later interviewed separately

by SOURCE and all three related the same statement; at approximately 2350 hrs.,

while on duty in Charlie Sector, East Side of Manzano, the three observed a

very bright light in the sky approximately 3 miles North-North East of their

position. The light traveled with great speed and stoped suddenly in the sky

over Coyote Canyon. The three first though the object was a helicopter,however,

after observing the strange aerial mameuvers ( stop and go ), they felt a

helicopter couldn't have performed such skills. The light landed in the Coyote

Canyon area. Sometime later, three witnessed the light take off and leave

proceeding straight up at a high speed and disappear.

2. Central Security Control (CSC) inside Manzano, contacted Sandia Security,who

conducts frequent building checks on two alarmed structures in area.  They

advised that a patrol was already in the area and would investigate.

3. On 11 Aug 80,RUSS CURTIS,Sandia Security,advised that on 9 Aug 80, a Sandia

Sscurity Guard, (who wishes his name not be divulged for fear of harassment),

related the following:  At approximately 0020hrs., he was driving east on the

Coyote Canyon access road on a routine building check of an alarmed structure.

As he approached the structure he observed a bright light near the ground

behind the structure.     He also observed an object he first though was a

helicopter.  But after driving closer, he observed a round disk shaped object.

He attempted to radio for back up patrol but his radio would not work. As he

approached the object on foot armed with a shotgun, the object took off in a

vertical direction at a high rate of speed.  The guard was a former helicopter

mechanic in the U.S.Army and stated the object he observed was not a helicopter

4.SOURCE advised on 22 Aug 80, three other security policemen observed the same

aerial phenomena described by the first three.  Again the object landed in

Coyote Canyon.  They did not see the object take off.

 

5.  Coyote Canyon is part of a large restricted test range used by the Air

Force Weapons Laboratory, Sandia Laboratories, Defense Nuclear Agency and the

Department of Energy.  The range was formerly patrolled by Sandia Security,

however, they only conduct building checks there now.

 

6.  On 10 Aug 80, a New Mexico State Patrolman sighted an aerial object land in

the Manzano's between belen and Albuquerque, NM.  The Patrolman reported the

sighting to the Kirtland AFB Command Post, who later referred the patrolman to

the AFOSI Dist 17.       AFOSI Dist 17 advised the patrolman to make a report

through his own agency.  On 11 Aug 80, the Kirtland Public Information office

advised the patrolman the USAF no longer investigates such sighting unless they

occur on a USAF base.

 

7.   WRITER Contacted all the agencies who utilized the test range and it was

learned no aerial tests are conducted in the Coyote Canyon area. Only ground

test are conducted.

 

8.On 8 Sept 80, WRITER learned from Sandia Security that another Security guard

observed a object land near an alarmed structure sometime during the first week

of August, but did not report it untill just recently for fear of harassment.

 

9.The two alarmed structres located within the area contains HQ CR 44 material.

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