Dateline
October 25, 1953.
Jimmy
Milligan, 16 yr old Santa Fe High School junior, reported sighting an
unusual flying “thing.” Milligan was driving home about 9:30 pm,
returning from the Young People's Fellowship Dance at the Methodist
Church, and heading north on Bishop's Lodge Road, just passing the
baseball field.
Suddenly,
he saw a ten foot long object floating floating directly across the
path of his car. Milligan swerved off the road and got out of his
car. On the dirt embankment in the weeds, Milligan saw a metal
object, about 10 feet long, shaped like two flat boat hulls attached
together.
Milligan
said, “ Naturally, I was a little bit scared and hesitant about
getting too near it. But when I reached out my hand to touch it, it
raised straight up in the air for a couple of feet and took off in a
steep climb toward Santa Fe.” Milligan drove home in a hurry
“You
should have seen him when he came in the that door,” Milligan's
mother said. “He was white and shaky. He looked so odd.”
“I
want to tell you something, “ young Milligan told his mother. “You
and Daddy'll think I'm crazy but it happened. I'll swear it did. On a
stack of bibles.”
His
father, B.F. Milligan, a repair foreman for the phone company, took
Jimmy back to the site and, together they searched for it. “We
didn't see much,” Mr. Milligan reported, “ because there was only
the light of the moon to see. We didn't have a spotlight in the car.”
Although Jimmy was shy about telling anyone about his story, the
newspapers learned of it and persuaded Jimmy to give an interview.
He
told the New Mexican reporter that he nearly struck the “thing”
with his car as he was driving home. The object was metal colored,
like aluminum and shaped like a great big bullet, about three feet
high, ten feet long and five feet across. While he was reluctant to
touch the object which was resting on an embankment, his curiosity
made him reach out. As he did so, the “thing” began roaring and
rose up in the air and began climbing in to the air.
“There
wasn't any glow or spitting fire,” Millingan reported, “I
couldn't feel any heat. No smell of carbon monoxide in the air. When
it was taking off, it made a sound like a washing machine, but even
faster. You know how a small airplane engine sounds. It was sort of
like that, only more high pitched.”
Milligan's
mother, a teacher at Harvey Junior High School, said that her son has
never been the over-imaginative type of boy, prone to making up tall
tales. She said Milligan was a good student with a B average at Santa
Fe High School, who spent his free time tinkering with his car, an
old roadster.
When
queried, Brigadier General G.G. Eddy, commanding officer of the White
Sands Proving Grounds issued a public statement, doubting that that
“thing” came from the proving grounds. He disclosed that there
were many projects of a highly classified nature at the Proving
grounds but that he was not at liberty to talk about them.
There
are no later news accounts of any further investigation into the
October 25 sighting or any explanation for the “thing” that
Milligan saw. “You know,” Milligan told the reporter, “I kind
of wish I had hit the thing as it came in front my my car. Then I'd
have some proof, all right!”
During
the course of his interview with the local newspaper, young Milligan
drew sketches of the “thing” and helped a New Mexican artist
sketch the object for publication. The next day, on the front page,
the newspaper published the story and the artists sketches of the
unidentified flying object that landed on Bishop's Lodge Road.
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