UFOB Index Card and Military Cable — Tahoka, Texas, November 1957

On November 13, 1957, at 1400Z, multiple military personnel stationed at Reese Air Force Base in Texas observed an unidentified aerial object. The object was described as a round, white or silver, basketball-sized entity that remained in sight for one hour and thirty minutes. The witnesses, including several officers and tower personnel, reported that the object moved in an easterly direction and oscillated on a north-south axis. Two T-33 aircraft from Reese AFB were dispatched to intercept or identify the object but were unable to reach its altitude. A subsequent check through flight services revealed that a balloon had been released from Holloman AFB, New Mexico, at the same time as the sighting. While the distance involved suggested it was not the exact same balloon, Captain Samuel Goldstein, the Assistant Wing Operations Officer, concluded that the object was a balloon similar to the one released at Holloman. The official conclusion recorded on the UFOB index card and in the military cable is that the sighting was a balloon. The report includes a list of nine military personnel who witnessed the event, all of whom were noted as reliable.