PROJECT BLUE BOOK

1. DATE - TIME GROUP 2. LOCATION
1700 Jocal ” .
16 Dec 17/0100Z Agoura, Calif

3. SOURCE 10. CONCLUSION
civilian
4. NUMBER OF OBJECTS

OTHER: CLOUD

Lenticular Cloud.

5. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION /11. BRIEF SUMMARY AND AWALYSIS

5-7 mins First appeared as black stationary cloud, then rapid
6. TYPE OF OBSERVATION movement in long shallow climb

ground & air visual
7, COURSE

stationary

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9. PHYSICAL EVIDENCE.

O Yes
O Ne

FORM
FTD sep 63 0-329 (TDE) previous editions of this form may be used.

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LOCGCKRABED ATRGORAPT GORPORATION
GALIFORUIA DIvIsicy
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to; AZ Samouzy 21, 1954

oo: IntraeTlight Test Files

Guhj: FLEDIG Saccugs,

Cn Doacmber 16, 2953, I was aboard WV~2 alrplane, LAC 450%, ww: ad
Ue «5 pilot Compilos, aa. 23 Plichd
Dryineers go in the aookpt

&*% about 6:00 PHM wo woro over the Catalina ree 208 (botreem Avalon
ocd Palos Vordes hille) at 15000-16000 ft., on top of a seattored to
brsken overcast. Tho horison was woll Geftired by tho rays of tho setbirc
acon, ard the sky abevs the crorsast wus dloar,

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Cur 4 stersion was dratm to what lookod like 2 darso alvplao off to
right. Wo were rourhly purailoling ths ooast at the tims, and Roy, I
think, mwetbionsd, “Shore's a flying aaucer”. We havo kidded Roy a good
deal about Siying cousers zines the aight about to yoars ace wWaca ho
end Bob Laird wers tn 1961S ond sightod sove lights over Gotalina, Throus
lichts roportedly stood still for a while and movol around over tho
4eland ond Mnally diuvappearad.

X was utanding between the pllotg and observed the objest out of the cen
piles winds in 4501. ae attention was alse arava to tho

objeeot. Rudy, who ws Plylas at the tim, dened ¢ sound and headed

tamed the objest. During this time, 1% scenesd to be stationary, oichough
wo did not appear to ovortaies it at ail. Uy first shought was thas 1%

was @ large airplane, possibly a G124, bus afsar locking moro closely,

it sconed to look more like a large cbhjoct without — with a oaxclisn
thickness in the middle tapering toward olther sido, If sould map dist inguisa

front or rear on the object, IS so med to be som wisn’ above us and to
the West, over the water, possibly in tha vicinity of Santa Barbara Isloads.

ilter looking at the objeat off ond on for about five minutes, it dbeaame
apparent thas iG wes moving temy Prom us and in just a minute or tio 16
cémphotely disappeared, As it wos disapocaring I looked at &t off ead cn
ena gradualiy I could not: see it ab ol. Roy ratechod ib scatiauoushy and
could 300 it sever I had Lost aigsht of lt--be actually obverred 1% ecte
tinuously 7 deliove. Ts disappearcd in o. cmaunh tae wes'erird direction
{tomard tho rte oun)

i3ve boon interested in flying stueers, partioularily aver since ones oveniag

dur$ IDG the 1963 Christmaa holidays. I was putting up a TY onmjoona on wy

root when I icoked up tovmrd the north over tho hitis behind cur heme ané

caw a Zargo circular object , noparensly atationary., Tho timo of day was

about dusk and I wasehed the odjest for several minutes and celled hos.ue

end a neighbor, aap ~s0 also looked a5 15. ft censinue! workieg cn
4 b Ay *%

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cy TV antouna, glancing at the shdook to7 and then, vl

15 February 1y54

Colonel Seorge Le Vertenbdaker
Commander

fir Technical Intelligence center
wright-Pattarson Aix lorce Base, Ohio

Pear Colonel Vertenbaker:

i an Incloaing a report, preparc: by CQ

Chie? Pngineer of Lockheed Alrerart corporation and some of ris
Susoclates, regarding a “flylag saucer" inclaent. This report
wis handed to me by Lockheed personnel wita the explanation that
42 a3 no.t reluctant to write the report in the first
pines and then sefused to forward it oa to you because of his
belief that taose whe profess to have seen flying saucers are not
usually considered to be logical and practical harte-headed
envineerse However, I thought sou should have the reoort for
whatover value it may be in your over711 staclaes.

best rez.rds3.e

Ancerely yours,

De Le “UsT
lisutenant General, JOA
Commander

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Saucer on 16 Decex

The enclosure is made up of a mumber of reports
ne sighting of a sorecalied flying saucer’ on 16 December
yenoxts are self-explanatory. Oaly one copy ss the ran
» indicating generaliy where this Gevice was seen, This
has not been dorsi oe to the press, Ont is s xbralttec fo;

Your comments on the sightings reported will be

FORAT UO?

LOCKHE ED AIRCRAS >y ‘
CALIFORNIA DIVISION

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December 18, 1953

To: Air Force Investigating Group on Plyivg Saucers
On Wednesday, December 16th, 1953, mwny wife and I went out te our

ranch, whichis three miles west of Agours, Califor nia, and one mile
north of bye Bivd. We arrived there at about sundown, which is
close to 4:45 P.M. PST. We weat tramediaicly to our ranch house,
which is located on a hill facing southwest.

At nroroxtirnately 5 o'clock (within two mirutes accuracy), I was looking

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at ie suaset through a larce plat oe window, when I noticed above a
Mountain to the west what [ first thought to be a black cloud. The sun
td gone down and the whole western Sia ;was gold and red, with several

thin taye rs of cloutis or hase at fairly hig h altitude, i wondered why this

Gne object was so dark, consid oring that the sun was de! oa m. ¢

iz. : diately thought | the 4 some vircrait had made an intens moke bi cail ;
so! studied the objec gicue aly. it was apparc nt, after my first 4 ew
seconds of considera tes, het the outline of thts object cid not Range

Thinking it was a lentiqulas cle ey I continued to study it, but it did “not
wove at atl for three minutes. I do not kuow how long it was there
before my attention was called to it.

When it did net move or disintegrate, l asked my wife to get me our
ei ‘ght-powe x binoculars, xc { would 3 not have to take my cyes off the object,
which by aow I had recognized as s% so-called ‘sauce z, As soon asl

was given the giasaes, I ran outside and started to focus the glasses on
the object, which now was moving fast on a heading betweea 240° and 260°
When I got the glasses focused onthe object, it was already moving
behind the first layer of haze. I gathered its spzed was very high, because
ofthe vate of fore-shorteniang of its major axis. The object, cven in the
glasses, appeared black and distinct, but I could make out no detail,
as T waa lool sing toward the setting sun, which was, of course, below the
horizon at this time

In 90 seconds from tne time it started to raove, the object had « completely
disavneared, ina long shallow elit mb on the heading noted. The clouds
were coming onshore, in a direction of t2 avel ; Opposite to that oz the

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objicct. The tirae in which tay wife and i studied this object was between
§:00 end 5:05. The cbjxct, which had lain stationary for at least
three minutes, appeared to be very large bit, not Laowing its distance
fvom mae, I could not estimate its dimensions. At all times the object
appese ed as an e! ‘ilps »» witha iiness ratio ofthe targer axis to ths
minor one of about Jor 10 to l. I estimated the position of the object to
be voughly over Point Mugu, which lies on a bearing about 265° fron 1m y

having been absent for
To eng Mr, wal

¥IZING SAUCER?

or Wednesday, Deeenbsr 16, 1953, I participated in a test flicht of a Savy
ation W¥~2, talcing off at he Mi,» The flipht crew congisiad
pilot; myself, conpi lots ri eht entrants }

» Slight test engineer. We c Out tovards tha ocaan and

off at 10,000 feet for a short teat, After compieting this test,
turned the controls ovex to ma and I started climoiae to our naxs toss
atituda of 20,900 fest. I climbed through @ very tirin, azabwered o reccash,
somewhere around 14,000 feet, avoided a couple of small clouds, and continued
to clind tewards 20,000 feat.

Scnewhers between 15,000 and 20,000 foot, Sp caid to me, "Ls0k out
thers’s a flying saucer,” I locked out the windshield towards where Roy was
Qointing aml saw some sort of an object at epproxinataly the altitade that wea
wte Tlying. I made a slight turn heading © ight towards this object, oxvesting
> overtake 24% co shat wo cowld look at it mare closely. I maintained tits
peding Yor roughly five minutes, looking at the object all the tins.

—_—pae und myself viewed this thing for at least five minutes, cisonssing

what we thonght it micht be. QQ fiest inoreasicn was that 15 vas a smald
clonde After studying it for sevaral minutes thonzh, | dedused that it wae

aot a aloud Secause 4% had teo cofinite sharp sd¢os aml its aposarance stayed
songtant, It Locked to me like I was Lising righs directly towards, and 2%
uivont the same elevation as, a vary leres flying wing airplane. T world oasi-

wate at one ome that I was somewhere between 17,000 acd 15,000 foas

though the object appeared to bo 1280 Lutely gtatlonar’. wa did not saen to
b3 cloning the gap dDetweer us and taxis od3ect, sv2n though we ware flying at
yore 225 miles per hour. The objac 5 then seened to ba patting smaller, and oy
attent elon was diverted frem it for & minute or so, Sub Wimmer mantdoned that
the object waa disappearing. In probably an clapsed tine of somewhere eround
2 minute, tha object had reduced in sizs to a mers spack, and *hen disap; seared.
Iss direction was aimost dua west. At the time, the sun had gone below the
horizon but the sky was red, end this chject had been ailhoustted wetes Sly
avaiast this red backzrourd. The atwrosphere was axtremely clear, ‘ihen I first
Sighted the object, IT guesset Shat i* was provebly seven miles away, UHowaver,
is eking at it in rotrospect, the object must have been censiderably lurgar th
f had estimated and, hence, the distance was probably mich greater than I had
alco estinated,.

feeling cack at the flight record tuken on this Flight, it was recorded that
#9 leveled off ut 20,000 feet at 5:10, ITnagmuch a5 we had sighted this object
“on we were Sonewhare batween 16,000 ard 18,000 fest, our view of the object
atwrted at roughly 5 o'clock, or just w little before that. We continued with
ux test Clight, thinicing no more of this observation, and Landed after 6
s'clock. We diccussed othar details of the flight and then went home. “nan
L got home, I dascribsd the so-callea flying saucer to my family und mede a

Little sketeh of what it leoked like to mea.

lying Savucey? 12 led
wil
miol Enginacity to give idm a report on : reed tiew cccurring tn the last “an
eyS, Anurmuch as i } returosa fom &@ trip, in wttonconee at this
Sting wera also Me, a = =—s umh Ay
’ taings ami, in the cousese of the sonversaticn, 1 discusset the ylirl is
ve torday on this WW2,. Upon completion of the technical discussion, I casually
, » .
tioned (for Loay of baing ridiculed) that nad been chasing a flyin uter
an% night. agp? »...: d this up imnedlately. aml anid that he know excctiy
hoee 1% was and whens acd, with no further isu, he suid that it was of 5:0§
. the object, was sighted off of Point Mugu. Thia literalay dvowlod ine over,
-2u98 the “ecation of the chjact that I nighted mas off of Polat Huy,
oc. aptinated that 2% was comenhare betwaen Point Mugs and the Santa Savdua
glands. “Incidentally, at the tims I had si@hted it, we were tlying over ‘she
‘
an just off of Long Esach.
Se related that last night at about 5:05 pom. he hud i an 3 3
mn the westown sky and hed estten hie binooulars and looked at 16 in dseteil.

:e described it as a wine with an aspest ratio of uppri«mimetely yan 2 taid
het 1% appesmred staticnary for several minutes, aad thea hoading direttiy vest
> Gisanoosered in ons to two minutes, as LT’ recollect | cConvergatica. Tite

ory Ji Kactly with t wo suw in flight at the uano Re.
irish ntton that I have been very szspticul of Tiyine ° se a ana
© never evon unugined Sovine an object in tha sky trat i vas noe > Te
noify, The three of ua who watched 18 fran the airplane aj. pilota uho
have bean Ilying for many years mn experimental test work, and are trained to
@ uccurat: obsaervaticn ‘folly ulso has Had a lot of expertence in Fiighks
best work, and hag been ch ing for many years «nd go u rary gined obsar
slo The jaunt that wh at } aren. ij and wh a& we saw LPO OATS to 1 ide tical. arict
pe time end plucs identis ul, touds me to dellove that 1% wes mot exactly an
Susion thas i observed.
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