Griffin Park, Los Angeles, Calif., April 1952April 1952

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On April 20, 1952, at Griffith Park in Los Angeles, California, a civilian took photographs that appeared to show objects in the sky. The pictures were taken about an hour and a half after dark.

The man photographed the Hollywood lights at night, in a direction roughly west southwest of the Griffith Park planetarium. He took three pictures about 15 to 20 seconds apart. Only one of them showed spots or objects that did not appear in the other two. None of the people present, including the man's wife and a visiting couple, remembered seeing anything in the sky.

The photos were taken on a Kodak Model 35 camera, with an exposure of 1/25th of a second at a lens opening of 5.6. The Air Force concluded the objects were almost certainly due to water spots on the negative, which it noted are very common on photographs.

Reported location

Griffin Park, Los Angeles, Calif., April 1952

Date of incident

April 1952

State / country

? / XX

Page count

4 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unknown

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 9

Original case file scans

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: : | . PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD
i 1. DATE ( 2. LOCATION : ( HE 12. CONCLUSIONS
20 Aor 52 ) | Griffin Pork, &
pr i ry . O Was Balloon
: bes TRL 10 Probobly Balloon |
3. DATE-TIME GROUP ) E TYPE OF OBSERVATION #=10 Possibly Belloon
PN | 0D Groeund-Vi sua! 0 Ground-Radar 0 Wos Aircraft
p Q Probably Aircraft
em. 21 FREER ! o Air Visual OD Air-Intercept Rodor 0 Possibly Aircraft
5. PHOTOS , . | 6. SOURCE 0 Wos Astronomical .
& Yes ; | civilian 0 Probably Astconomical i
0 No | . . |0 Possibly Astronomical
7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION | 6. NUNBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE  % O1heWATERSPOTS ON
| E Co cy (‘ata for Evaluation
. 0 nknown i
Ce RE TERR RR (AE SRR S. RNR NR J HRGATIVE
10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. COMMENTS jot
Objects were undoubtedly due to water spots Paotoes taken showed "objects". :
on negative. Very common on photographs.
Negatives not requested. 1 :
ATIC FORM 329 (REY 26 SEP 52) .
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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28941498