◆ CASE FILEThe facts, corroborated
Two Days, Two Crews and a White Ball Racing Against the Wind at Holloman
On 11 and 12 October 1949 two separate crews at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico, one tracking a research balloon and one working on a B-29, each saw a white round object cross the sky at great speed, the first against the wind their own balloon was showing. OSI checks of radar, aircraft and test devices came back negative and the reports carry no explanation. This is the record of what the airmen reported, not a verdict on what crossed Holloman.
◆ THE SHORT VERSION
- Two Days, Two Crews and a White Ball Racing Against the Wind at Holloman is a reported UAP case in Holloman Air Force Base, near Alamogordo, New Mexico, USA, 11 October 1949, 10:45-11:00, and 12 October 1949, about 11:15 MST.
- On 11 October 1949 a balloon-tracking crew at Holloman AFB reported a white dish-shaped object crossing the sky in ten to fifteen seconds against the prevailing wind their own balloon was showing.
- The next day S/Sgt. Clifford B. Hart and two mechanics reported a white or aluminium ball moving at "an enormous rate of speed" before vanishing to the north-east.
- OSI checks found no radar sightings, no aircraft and no test devices aloft, and the one weather research balloon released had moved the opposite way.
- The OSI reports offer no explanation for either sighting.
- For this case Fractured Realities holds 1 distinct source, 1 corroborating primary document and 5 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
11 October 1949, 10:45-11:00, and 12 October 1949, about 11:15 MST
LOCATION
Holloman Air Force Base, near Alamogordo, New Mexico · USA
COORDS
32.85°N 106.11°W
INDEPENDENCE
L4 · OFFICIAL RECORD
SOURCES
1 distinct
CLAIMANTS
5
STATUS
Known from released government records
NUMBERS COMPUTED 2026-10-12 · RESOLVED COUNTS, NOT A VERDICT
