Langtry, Texas
Langtry is a small unincorporated community in Val Verde County, Texas, located approximately 60 miles northwest of Del Rio, Texas, near the confluence of the Pecos River and the Rio Grande. It is best known historically as the home of Judge Roy Bean. In UAP research, Langtry is associated with a 1955 UAP crash retrieval account attributed to USAF Reserve Colonel Robert Willingham.
The 1955 Crash Site
In spring 1955, Colonel Willingham observed a disc-shaped craft crash just south of the Rio Grande near Langtry — on the Mexican side of the border — during a Cold War simulation escort mission originating from Carswell Air Force Base in Fort Worth. Willingham estimated the crash location based on his familiarity with the area and received authorization from Denver flight control to investigate.
He and companion Jack Perkins landed in a 1947 Ercoupe Champion near the site. The craft had skidded approximately 300 feet and broken into roughly three sections: a flattened disc 20–25 feet in diameter split into two larger pieces (one partially embedded in a sandy mound), and a separate dome-shaped section 12–15 feet long resting about 50 feet from the main body. Mexican soldiers had formed a perimeter around the wreckage. An officer, Lieutenant Martinez, told Willingham that "the American Air Force will be here very soon to clean this all up."
The Langtry site is distinct from the El Indio, Texas location associated with a separate 1950 crash — the two cases are often conflated in UFO literature but differ by geography, timing, and physical evidence.