New Year's Day sighting over Cochise in the New Mexico-Arizona borderlands (1955)

Project Blue Book Case #3382. On January 1, 1955, a bright object was observed near Cochise, New Mexico — a tiny community in the desert borderlands near the Arizona line. Named after the famous Chiricahua Apache chief, Cochise sits in the rugged terrain where the Chihuahuan Desert meets the southern Rockies. The case was classified "Unknown."