May 5, 1949🇺🇸Sighting
Fort Bliss, Texas: Three Army Officers Observe White Discs at 250 mph
On May 5, 1949, at Fort Bliss, Texas, two majors and a captain observed two oblong white discs flying 200-250 mph overhead; the USAF listed it as unidentified.
Background
On May 5, 1949, at the Army's Fort Bliss, Texas, two majors and a captain observed two oblong white discs flying 200-250 mph overhead at 5:45 p.m. The unknowns made a shallow turn before moving out of sight. As was its habit when the witnesses were military personnel or private pilots, the USAF Project Blue Book later listed the event as unidentified.
Fort Bliss was home to captured German V-2 rocket scientists and was a center for early US missile development, making it a sensitive military installation.