Credibility Audit
3 factors- Military Witness+3
- Expert Witness+2
- Official Report+1
- 0–3
- 4–7
- 8–11
- 12–16
- 17+
DoD Observables
0 of 5- Instantaneous Acceleration
- Hypersonic Velocity
- Low Observability
- Trans-Medium Travel
- Anti-Gravity Lift
Event Description
Craft morphology
Three gray humanoid beings described as human-sized with gray complexions, pronounced noses, and vertical-slit eyes in tight jumpsuits. Emerged from landed disc to meet US military and CIA personnel. Source: Paul Shartle testimony and filmmaker accounts — unverified classified footage.
In the spring of 1964, personnel at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico reportedly witnessed an unannounced craft land on the base airfield in the presence of senior officers. No contemporary documentation has been publicly released confirming or denying the event; its existence entered public knowledge through a 1974 NBC documentary produced with partial US government cooperation.
The documentary — 'UFOs: Past, Present and Future,' narrated by Rod Serling — was produced by Robert Emenegger and Alan Sandler following an unusual approach from US Air Force officials including the Director of the Air Force Office of Special Investigations. Emenegger and Sandler maintain that they were offered actual film footage of the Holloman landing for inclusion in the documentary — footage they were shown briefly at the Pentagon — but that the offer was withdrawn at the last moment. An animation sequence was substituted, with narration describing what the footage reportedly showed: a disc-shaped craft landing at Holloman, occupants emerging, and a formal meeting with senior Air Force personnel.
The story resurfaced repeatedly in subsequent decades. Former Air Force officer and official UFO investigator Todd Zechel and researcher William Steinman both reported independent corroborating sources. Former government consultant Linda Moulton Howe published an account of an alleged briefing document describing the Holloman event as part of a classified government UAP program. Various former officials either confirmed or denied specific elements without ever providing verifiable documentation.
The 1964 timeframe coincides with the Socorro, New Mexico landing of April 24, 1964 — one of the most thoroughly investigated and officially unresolved close encounter cases in Project Blue Book's history — and with a broader documented pattern of UAP activity over southwestern US military installations in the mid-1960s. The Holloman case is notable in UAP history precisely because its primary proponents are credible documentary filmmakers with documented government access, and because the partial Air Force cooperation with the documentary suggests that officials were willing to allow the story to circulate in a managed form without providing confirming evidence.