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- CUFON - UFO INFORMATION SERVICE SEATTLE, WASHINGTON
- Freedom of Information Act Document Files
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- COMPLAINT FORM
- ADMINISTRATIVE DATA
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- 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
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 9.The two alarmed structres located within the area contains HQ CR 44 material.
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