| 30 Jul 1954 - Los Angeles, California, USA |
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30 July 1954 11:15 Los Angeles, California, USA 
Metallic, pencil-shaped object hover at above 30,000 ft
Hughes Aircraft test pilots Englert and Peterson, flying a B-25 bomber were about 15 miles southeast of Los Angeles on a maintenance test hop heading ESE airspeed 170 mph (true airspeed about 200 mph) at 7,000 feet. They saw a metallic, pencil-shaped object in horizontal orientation hover at above 30,000 feet for an unstated length of time while they climbed to 11,000 feet and made 30° turns to try to get a better view of object (over 4+ minutes at max climb rate of about 1,000 feet/min). Peterson, also a National Guard F-86 jet pilot, attempted to scramble jet intercept from Van Nuys National Guard Operations but could not establish radio contact (EM??). USN aircraft from the S seemed to pass under object without noticing it. A hovering object was observed. One metallic cylinder was observed by two experienced male Hughes employees for over four minutes. Hynek rating: CE2: Close Encounters of the Second Kind Vallee rating: FB1: A simple sighting of a UFO traveling in a straight line across the sky. Vallee reliability rating: 342: Reliable source, firsthand; site visit by a skilled analyst; natural explanation requires major alteration of one parameter. Other sightings in this area Sources: - 55 - 91 - 676 |
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