riversidearchives: Strange Lights Over Ventura County When we think of unidentified flying objects o
riversidearchives: Strange Lights Over Ventura County When we think of unidentified flying objects or U. F. O.’s, we think of space and of course NASA. The Navy is not the first government agency you would think of when it came to U. F. O.’s. At The National Archives at Riverside in our Naval records there is a U. F. O. report from the Naval Air Station at Point Mugu, California. This is a report in which two police officers from two different cities in Ventura county reported the same sighting to the Navy. Officer Orville Clinton of Fillmore reported to see four round silvery objects in the sky in the vicinity of the San Cayetano mountains heading north. As you can see from this report, about the same time in Santa Paula (which is just north of Fillmore) Police Sergeant D. A. Kelly saw the same four objects in the sky. We have a subscription service to Fold3.com, which has the records of an Air Force program called Project Blue Book. Project Blue Book was created to investigate reports of unidentified flying objects between 1945 to 1969. There is a report of this sighting in Project Blue Book and here is the link to that report. What is interesting about the Project Blue Book report is the Air Force found out about this incident through the local newspaper. The Project Blue Book report is very poor and they were waiting on the Navy to provide them with more details–which did not seem to show up. It seems the Navy was unaware of the Air Force’s Project Blue Book. At least the eyewitness accounts have been found at The National Archives at Riverside and if you are interested in viewing the originals or to view Project Blue Book on Fold3.com for free please come in for a visit. Series: Central Subject Files 1957-1959. Record Group 181: Records of Naval Districts and Shore Establishments 1784-2000. (National Archives Identifier 7450434). -- source link
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