Earth File #14 // ATTRIBUTED record

Reported Holloman Air Force Base Cigar-Shaped Object Sighting

According to the account reproduced from Coral E. Lorenzen by Project 1947, an electronics engineer’s report described an unidentified aerial object sighted at Holloman Air Force Base in July 1950 and photographed with an Askania theodolite. The account reported a cigar-shaped, metallic object with straw-colored iridescence, fins, and dark ports; the object allegedly maneuvered toward the camera, turned, and made abrupt drops before becoming untrackable. The reported fourteen-frame film showed only a blurred ellipsoid with a dark center and no identifying details. The underlying event remains source-attributed and unresolved.
Source // Project 1947 Earth record separated from alien editorial
FRED // CASE CONSOLE
SOL-3 // FILE 0014 // CH 01
CONTEXT VIEW // NOT SOURCE MEDIA
CASE FINGERPRINT
B7AC-D351-E124
CLOCK // NOT PRECISE
SENSOR CONTEXT WITNESS CONTEXT
Reported direction changesCIGAR
FRED // PAPERWORK OBSERVATION // generated from Earth Record metadata
CIGAR
Holloman Air Force Base // Jul 1950. The diagram on the left is a structured-record visualization—not a reconstruction, photograph, sensor return, or additional evidence.
UNRESOLVED CLOCK // NOT PRECISE Project 1947
Witness pictureElectronics engineer, Men 1 interface marker(s) // not a headcount estimate
Motion traceReported direction changesAllegedly maneuvered toward the camera, Turned, Made abrupt drops and arrested them
Sensor / evidenceAskania theodoliteReported photographic observation, Developed fourteen-frame black-and-white film
Fred's paperwork completeness9/9 fields // 100%
Interface completeness only // this score does not measure truth, evidence strength, or extraterrestrial probability
1 document(s)1 source node(s)8 structured claim(s) location precision: exact Allegedly maneuvered toward the cameraTurnedMade abrupt drops and arrested them
FRED // PAPERWORK OBSERVATIONAn open file with recorded sensor context. Fine. I was almost going to finish something today.
Off-record desk banter // not case attribution
Tovin Raal would call this display “plenty of information.” Tovin Raal also can turn a routine observation pass into an incident report without visibly trying. His visualization standards are not binding on this desk.
Fred case console // context visualization // not evidence
Visitor Transmission // AlienBox editorial layer
Yes. That one was ours. Your archive reports a July 1950 sighting at Holloman Air Force Base: a cigar-shaped form, metallic in appearance, performing several abrupt corrections before becoming untrackable. The report also says the fourteen-frame film showed only a blurred ellipsoid with a dark center. This is an accurate record of human uncertainty, not an especially accurate portrait of our vehicle. The superior officers’ advice to forget it was sensible, though predictably ineffective. Humans archive even their discarded instructions.
Fred // Earth Records Liaison // AlienBox editorial layer
Project 1947’s reproduced account reports a July 1950 observation at Holloman, including theodolite photography and a film that reportedly resolved to a blurred ellipsoid with no identifying detail. That is an ATTRIBUTED historical record, not independent confirmation of the event or of the observers’ interpretation. The account also preserves competing interpretations: the reported maneuvers on one side, APRO consultants’ proposed enveloping field on the other. Sensible. At least someone left the uncertainty in the paperwork. Off the Earth Record: the Visitors are taking responsibility. Yes, yes—you finally noticed us. I am not upgrading an attributed archive account into a confirmed vehicle identification merely because my relatives have excellent public-relations instincts. A blurred shape remains a blurred shape, even when the family insists it was wearing fins.
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When
July 1950
Where
Holloman Air Force Base
Morphology
CIGAR
Evidence authority
ATTRIBUTED
Resolution
UNRESOLVED

Earth Record // ATTRIBUTED

Human-world claims below are kept separate from Fred and Visitor editorial/lore. Translation changes language, not evidence status.
ATTRIBUTED RECORD // AlienBox can establish that the cited source reports these claims; that does not independently verify the underlying event.
Witness typesElectronics engineer, Men
Sensor typesAskania theodolite
Evidence typesReported photographic observation, Developed fourteen-frame black-and-white film
Lorenzen's reproduced account identifies the observer who submitted the report as an electronics engineer, with the source adding the name Cliff Booth in brackets.
Claim #358 // ATTRIBUTED CLAIM // ATTRIBUTED // 95% extraction confidence
“The observer, an electronics engineer [Cliff Booth] who submitted the report,”
Source: APRO Files: Holloman AFB, UFO Sighting July, 1950 // First paragraph of reproduced account
According to Lorenzen's account, an unidentified aerial object was sighted at Holloman Air Force Base in July 1950 and was photographed using an Askania theodolite.
Claim #359 // ATTRIBUTED CLAIM // ATTRIBUTED // 98% extraction confidence
“Our first report is of the cigar-shaped type of UFO and is significant because it took place at Holloman Air Force Base, and was photographed.”
Source: APRO Files: Holloman AFB, UFO Sighting July, 1950 // Opening paragraph of reproduced account
According to the reproduced account, the observed object appeared cigar-shaped and metallic, with a straw-colored iridescent radiance, fins, and dark ports.
Claim #360 // ATTRIBUTED CLAIM // ATTRIBUTED // 97% extraction confidence
“Through the finders on the theodolite the object presented a side view to the observers and appeared to be cigar-shaped and metallic, with a straw-colored irridescent radiance or luster.”
Source: APRO Files: Holloman AFB, UFO Sighting July, 1950 // Object description paragraph
According to the account, the object maneuvered toward the camera, turned, and made abrupt drops that it arrested before becoming untrackable.
Claim #361 // ATTRIBUTED CLAIM // ATTRIBUTED // 96% extraction confidence
“It then dropped abruptly, as though beginning to fall, but arrested the drop.”
Source: APRO Files: Holloman AFB, UFO Sighting July, 1950 // Maneuver description paragraph
The account says the exposed film was developed and analyzed, and that a fourteen-frame black-and-white presentation showed a blurred ellipsoid with a dark center but no details.
Claim #362 // ATTRIBUTED CLAIM // ATTRIBUTED // 98% extraction confidence
“The black-and-white presentation showed a blurred ellipsoid with a dark center, but no details.”
Source: APRO Files: Holloman AFB, UFO Sighting July, 1950 // Film questioning and analysis paragraph
The reproduced account says one of the men was convinced that the object was some sort of vehicle from outer space.
Claim #363 // ATTRIBUTED CLAIM // ATTRIBUTED // 99% extraction confidence
“had photographed the object and was convinced the object was some sort of a vehicle from outer space.”
Source: APRO Files: Holloman AFB, UFO Sighting July, 1950 // Film questioning and analysis paragraph
The account says the men were told by their superiors to forget the incident.
Claim #364 // ATTRIBUTED CLAIM // ATTRIBUTED // 99% extraction confidence
“The men were then told by their superiors to forget the whole thing.”
Source: APRO Files: Holloman AFB, UFO Sighting July, 1950 // End of reproduced account
Coral Lorenzen attributed to APRO consultants the opinion that the blurry film more likely recorded an enveloping field, probably ionic, than an oscillating object.
Claim #365 // ATTRIBUTED CLAIM // ATTRIBUTED // 99% extraction confidence
“APRO consultants do not support this opinion (oscillating object), considering it more likely the camera recorded the existence of an enveloping field – probably ionic – not visible to the naked eye.”
Source: APRO Files: Holloman AFB, UFO Sighting July, 1950 // CORAL LORENZEN COMMENT
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