Compiled and edited by Jenn Jett, Museum Specialist
Editor’s Note: This article and its contents were compiled from multiple Test Execution Reports, Results Symposium Proceedings, and other documents published as a part of the Defense Nuclear Agency’s Misty Castle Series of High-Explosive Events. The editor would like to thank the thousands of people who contributed to Misty Castle over 12 years of testing at White Sands Missile Range. She would also like to thank the Department of Defense’s Defense Technical Information Center for archiving the many documents used to create this article and the White Sands Missile Range Visual Information Department for preserving footage of the tests. Unless otherwise noted, photographs and images used in this article are from the White Sands Missile Range Museum’s Archival Research Center.
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I enjoyed reading the information provided and researched for all the Misty Castle projects. I appreciate the Museum putting this together for all the men and women who worked on the Stallion side of the range on these projects.
I was stationed at WSMR after basic training. I remember before my release in early December 1965 reading that there was an event scheduled that would cause a flash and that it was not radioactive. At exactly one hour before the event while walking home from my duty station I observed a light, perhaps the brightness of a planet. I took five seconds for it to travel where i could see it above the horizon to directly over head where it faded out. The thing had no tail and it did not burn out. I know meteors, this was not a meteor. I wonder if the thing could have come from one of the forementioned non-nuclear test.
..My duty station was at the Post Library under Mrs Akers and Miss collins.