This article was published in the daily newspaper The Washington Post, USA, page 4, on November 5, 1957.
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WHITE SANDS PROVING GROUND, N.M., Nov. 4 -- UPI
The White Sands Proving Ground announced today that a huge, oval object "nearly as bright as the sun" was spotted Sunday hovering near bunkers used in the first atomic bomb explosion.
The sightings were made 17 hours apart by two different military police patrols on this southern New Mexico missile testing range. The first atomic bomb was touched off on the northern edge of the area July 16, 1945.
The commanding officer of the MPs said some of the men heard radio reports or seen newspaper accounts of saucer sightings in Texas.
Both sightings were in the area of abandoned bunkers used by technicians who observed the world's first atomic explosion. The bunker are of
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until it was about 50 yards above the A-bomb bunkers, where it went out.
A few minutes later, "the object became real bright, like the sun, then fell in an angle to the ground and went out," the patrol reported.
Penney said he had accompanied some of his MPs to the site today but found no physical evidence of the object's visit.
Neither jeep patrol had motor trouble. Some drivers who saw similar phenomena in Texas reported engine trouble.
Officials at White Sands said the phenomena had nothing to do with any activity of the base.
