Los Angeles, CaliforniaJuly 1954

Unidentified

Summary

On July 30, 1954, two civilian test pilots flying a B-25 about 15 miles southeast of Los Angeles, California, sighted a strange object. Both pilots saw it at the same time at about 11:15 a.m. The object looked like a pencil thin line lying flat in relation to the earth. It appeared solid and made of metal or a similar material.

The object seemed to stay in a stationary position. The aircraft climbed to about 11,000 feet and made turns to get a better view, but the object did not disappear. It appeared to be at about 30,000 feet. A Navy aircraft seemed to pass underneath without seeing it.

One pilot was a National Guard jet pilot and felt the sighting was important enough to try a jet intercept, but radio contact failed. The Air Force record card listed this case as unidentified.

Reported location

Los Angeles, California

Date of incident

July 1954

State / country

CA / US

Page count

5 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unidentified

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 21

Original case file scans

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PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD
l. DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
30 July 195. Los Angeles, California 0 Was Balloon
: ¢ be Feb le 0 Probably Balloon
3. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION 8 Possibly Balloon
i 3 0 Was Aircraft
Local am 0 Ground- Visual 0 Ground-Radar 0 Probably Aircraft
GMT 20/18152 H Air~Visual O Air-Intercept Radar [DO Possibly Aircraft
- — Nr EF UUM
S. PHOTOS é. SOURCE O Was Astronomical
D Yes O Probably Astronomical
2 No Civilian (2 Tests Pilots © Possibly Astronomical
7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 9. COURSE & Other UNIDITIFTZD
2 Insufficient Data for Evaluation
fos Unkn
- Did Not Report i, Stationar Sig :
EF 10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING {11. COMMENTS
Pencil thin line, stationary in horizontal UNIDENTIFIED,
! plane parallel to earth, Seemed solid
: metallic, Air visual from B-25 on test
mission, A/C climbed to LEIS 000 £1, Circling
to obtain hatter view, Object did not dis—
appear. Navy a/c passed under object, Obj=c
| appeared to be at 30,000.
: ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 52) .
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Source: National Archives Catalog · NAID 28959164