Mike Easterling's 2020 report for the Farmington Daily Times network revisited the three-day March 1950 sighting wave using original local headlines, witness names and later research by David Marler.
The article is valuable because it preserves what the town's own newspaper said close to the event and identifies residents associated with the reports. It also shows how the label Armada became attached to a cluster of claims rather than to one instrumentally measured formation.
As a retrospective, the report must be read alongside the surviving 1950 pages. Later interviews can add human context, but elapsed time may change numbers, sequences and confidence. The source supports the case chronology without proving the origin of the objects.