UFO News Article:

“Navy Officer Asserts Flying 
Saucers Seen At White Sands”, 23 February 1950 

(The Palm Beach Post, West Palm Beach, Florida)

The Palm Beach Post presents an interview with Commander Robert B. McLaughlin, U.S. Navy:

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Z_wsAAAAIBAJ&sjid=5swFAAAAIBAJ&pg=927,6125397

UFOs were sighted (during guided missile tests) over White Sands Proving Ground, New Mexico in April, May and June 1949, according to McLaughlin.

Quote from the article:

“On one occasion, he said, two small saucers chased a Navy rocket.”

NOTE: The newspaper date is 23 February 1950.

Commander Robert B. McLaughlin, U.S. Navy
(ufologie.patrickgross.org photo)