◆ CASE FILEThe facts, corroborated
Two Artillery Posts Triangulate a Bursting Orange Light
At about 21:05 on 6 June 1949 four artillery officers at two observation posts on Camp Hood, Texas, watched an orange light through their BC scopes for two minutes and forty seconds before it burst into fragments. Both posts took azimuths so it could be plotted, and the Blue Book file gives no evaluation of the night. This is the record of what the officers reported, not a verdict on what burst over Camp Hood.
◆ THE SHORT VERSION
- Two Artillery Posts Triangulate a Bursting Orange Light is a reported UAP case in Artillery Observation Posts No. 1 and 2, Camp Hood (Killeen Base area), Texas, USA, 6 June 1949, about 21:05 CST.
- Four artillery officers at two observation posts on Camp Hood, Texas, watched an orange light "similar to a ball of fire" through BC scopes for two minutes and forty seconds on 6 June 1949.
- The officers reported that the light seemed stationary, then moved in level flight and broke into smaller pieces that vanished in a fraction of a second.
- The two posts took azimuths of 2510 and 2771 mils so the light could be plotted.
- The Project Blue Book file gives no evaluation for the night, and NICAP lists it as a Blue Book unknown.
- For this case Fractured Realities holds 1 distinct source, 1 corroborating primary document and 4 distinct claimants on its resolved list.
- The archive grades it L4 · OFFICIAL RECORD — a released government record names who saw it, the top of our scale, though no independent testimony sits beside that record.
Counts are resolved totals of what sources say, computed 2026-10-12; the reported details above are claims in the record, not findings. A record of reports, not a verdict on what happened.
EVENT DATE
6 June 1949, about 21:05 CST
LOCATION
Artillery Observation Posts No. 1 and 2, Camp Hood (Killeen Base area), Texas · USA
COORDS
31.07°N 97.83°W
INDEPENDENCE
L4 · OFFICIAL RECORD
SOURCES
1 distinct
CLAIMANTS
4
STATUS
Known from released government records
NUMBERS COMPUTED 2026-10-12 · RESOLVED COUNTS, NOT A VERDICT
