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LocationLandmarkWhite Sands is New Mexico's Tularosa Basin gypsum dunefield and the missile range named for it, a recurring UFO setting from the 1940s rocket era to 2026 shoot-down claims.
White Sands is New Mexico's Tularosa Basin gypsum dunefield and the missile range named for it, a recurring UFO setting from the 1940s rocket era to 2026 shoot-down claims.
White Sands is the gypsum dunefield of the Tularosa Basin in south-central New Mexico, the largest on Earth at about 275 square miles, and by extension the military testing ground that surrounds it. Part of the dunefield is protected as White Sands National Park, proclaimed a national monument in 1933 and redesignated a park in 2019. The basin around it belongs largely to White Sands Missile Range, an Army range of more than 3,200 square miles, with Holloman Air Force Base on its eastern side.
The range opened as White Sands Proving Ground on July 9, 1945, a week before the first atomic bomb exploded at Trinity Site near its northern end. From April 1946 the Army launched captured V-2 rockets there, making the basin the center of early American rocketry. That work filled the desert with trained observers, cinetheodolites, and tracking radar, which gave White Sands reports unusual weight in the first UFO years. In April 1949 a balloon crew near the range tracked a fast, elliptical object by theodolite, and Navy Commander Robert McLaughlin described that and other range sightings in a 1950 True magazine article. Range personnel also reported the green fireballs that led to Project Twinkle, an Air Force camera watch later judged a failure.
The official record kept returning to the area. In a March 1952 briefing released in 2026, Blue Book chief Edward J. Ruppelt said "the people at White Sands have seen very odd things" and that reports were concentrating around Holloman and White Sands. Later claims went further: the late Virgil Armstrong said he was told of a crashed craft with five dead occupants at White Sands, an account with no supporting records. In August 2026, journalist Ross Coulthart reported, citing unnamed sources, that a covert U.S. program had used flight restrictions to draw in, detect, and shoot down UAP, including over the range, while noting that some involved believed the objects might be foreign drones. The Department of War and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence gave no public response, and astrophysicist Avi Loeb asked that any recovered material be opened to scientists.
White Sands matters because it concentrates the nuclear, rocket, and air-defense testing that defined the early Cold War in one heavily instrumented basin. That combination produced some of the best-documented early sightings by scientists and range crews, and it explains why the place keeps resurfacing in new allegations. In 2026, independent researchers proposed mining archived White Sands ionosphere records for traces of the 1948-1950 green fireballs.
[Retweeted] @MickWest @Only_Ryan02 @lbf_tweet @kevinconrad222 @MickSeagull @UAPSkepticEric @MonkeeSage @RepLuna Kirkpatrick: “We see these [‘metallic orbs’] all over the world, and we see these making very interesting apparent maneuvers.” For once he accidentally told the truth. It’s the same morphology Trump described on 60 Mins; USS Omaha sphere; White Sands; AFG “orb” in clouds, etc. https://t.co/LJNVevWKkk
[Retweeted] Ross Coulthart says there’s an ongoing operation to lure and shoot down UAP at White Sands and China Lake involving the UFO legacy program, and Avi Loeb and the UAP Scientific Council are frustrated they’re not involved. https://t.co/7OO6DfNXfA
Ross Coulthart says there is an operation to lure and shoot down UFOs at White Sands Missile Range 👽🛸 If this is true, it’s dangerous and highly unethical. https://t.co/NPefWIc7In
[Retweeted] Ross Coulthart says there’s an ongoing operation to lure and shoot down UAP at White Sands and China Lake involving the UFO legacy program, and Avi Loeb and the UAP Scientific Council are frustrated they’re not involved. https://t.co/7OO6DfNXfA
[Retweeted] @MickWest @TheUfoJoe Pure nonsense from @MickWest, who refuses to engage when the evidence unambiguously points to an anomaly. For example, his “explanations” for “Gimbal” have been flatly falsified by *data* and *evidence.* (Ditto for, e.g., Omaha, Nellis, Tic Tac, Jackson, White Sands, etc.) https://t.co/Kg7QYhunDR
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[Retweeted] Three fighter jets were sent to intercept an unidentified craft near the White Sands Missile Range, and all three came back to base. Retired lawyer Robert S. Martinez recounts what his client said the pilots heard. Watch this full episode of Reality Check: https://t.co/Djk3DXkr2G @rosscoulthart
An unusual client, a congressman and Roswell | Reality Check
Ross Coulthart speaks with retired lawyer Robert S. Martinez, who describes a client that said he spent nearly 50 years with a government contractor at White Sands Missile Range.
