Raymond E. Fowler on the McLaughlin / White Sands “egg-shaped” UFO (1987 clip)
Source: video clip posted by @ParaN_rmal on X, captioned “Raymond Fowler - ‘Egg Shaped’ UFO from the 1950s (1987).” Speaker: Raymond E. Fowler (1933-2022), the veteran MUFON investigator and author (The Andreasson Affair, etc.). URL: https://x.com/i/status/1906247391407403219 (posted 2025-03-30; ~10k views; clip dated 1987). Captured: 2026-07-01. OpenAI Whisper (whisper-1) via scripts/speech_to_text_remote.py. Full clip transcript below, verbatim. No relation to James Fowler: this is Raymond E. Fowler, the classic UFO researcher, not James Fowler the Skywatcher technologist featured elsewhere in the base (fowler-reed-summers-emergent-dogwhistle-part1-2026-01-27). Same surname, different people, no known family link. The only overlap is thematic and coincidental — both surface an “egg-shaped” craft (James Fowler’s Skywatcher taxonomy has a “Class 9 egg”). What this is: Raymond Fowler recounting the well-known 1949 White Sands case — Navy Cdr. Robert B. McLaughlin’s team, tracking a V-2 / WAC Corporal with a theodolite, reported an anomalous object at ~56 miles altitude moving ~7 miles/second, said to be egg-shaped and (per Fowler) photographed but never released. One of the earliest instrumented-observation UFO cases (McLaughlin publicized it in True magazine, 1950).
In the 1950s, a Commander McLaughlin, a Navy commander who was in charge of V-2 experiments down in White Sands, New Mexico — they were using a theodolite, which essentially is a telescope that also gives you readings of altitude and azimuth, and they were tracking a V-2 and a WAC Corporal, I think, attached to it, when they saw something else. And they managed to get the theodolites on this object, and it was about 56 miles up and going about 7 miles per second. And they actually got photographs of it, which have never been released, but that was terrific speed for that time. It was certainly nothing that we had. It was egg-shaped, and they could actually see it through the theodolite as they tracked it.