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- "They (USAF personnel) spotted six 'saucer shaped
flying objects' at an altitude of about 7000 feet at the base of a
cloud bank about 3:50 p.m. "
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- WIDE AREA COVERED BY REPORTS Los Angeles Times Nov.
6, 1957
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- Those unidentified flying objects first reported
over Texas and Gulf of Mexico arrived over Southern California
yesterday.
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- Reports of unidentified flying objects cluttered
police switchboards in the west and southwest portions of the city.
There were two sightings in Orange County and a belated report of an
early sighting Monday at Borrego Springs, San Diego County.
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- None could identify the objects, neither could they
agree on what they looked like.
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- People living in the Hollywood Hills told of a "ball
of fire" in the sky. In the San Fernando Valley people saw "a great
green light". A housewife in Corona del Mar saw what looked like "an
orange jack-o-lantern."
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- Hovers Over Ocean
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- Mrs. Charles Weitzel, 243 Driftwood Drive, Corona
del Mar, said the object hovered just above the horizon, out over the
ocean in the south southwest quadrant. She had the exact time of her
sighting -- 6:04p.m -- because that was the time she put the
corn-on-the-cob in the pressure cooker, then stepped to her picture
window to look out.
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- The object vanished in the several seconds it took
Mrs. Weitzel to summon her husband, a Marine Corps flier, to the
window. Although most persons reported just fleeting glimpses of the
extraterrestrial phenomena, other observers claimed to have the
objects in view for more than an hour.
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- Personnel at Los Alamitos Naval Air Station reported
unidentified objects in sight almost continuously between 6:05 and
7:25 p.m.
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- Lt. Richard Spencer, a flying officer, saw the
object from the ground. "It was not a star and it was not an
airplane", he said. He admitted, however, that it appeared to be
"starlike," and added that it glowed in varying colors, changing from
bright to dim and back again.
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- Airport Tower Operator Louis D. Mitchell and a
sentry on duty, Hospitalman Charles Kreiger, also observed the object.
Almost all observers were agreed that the object moved slowly --
almost imperceptibly, across the sky. Most were agreed that the
direction of travel was north or northwest.
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- Lending credence to the reports was the fact that
there Air Force weather observers, including the commanding officer of
the unit, acknowledged sighting unidentified phenomena over Long Beach
Municipal Airport.
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- They spotted six "saucer shaped flying objects" at
an altitude of about 7000 feet at the base of a cloud bank about 3:50
p.m.
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- Larger Than C-46
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- Maj. Louis F. Baker, commanding officer of the
wearther observation post, who sighted the objects with his assistants
Airmen Joseph Abramavage and William Nieland said: "They were circular
and shiny like spun aluminum changing course instantaneously without
loss of speed like planes in a dogfight," Maj. Baker said. he said the
objects were larger than a twin engine C-46 aircraft and were in sight
for about a minute and a half.
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- The objects also were observed by 10 military
personnel waiting to board an airplane at the airport, the spotters
reported. Maj. Baker said he rejected the theory that the objects were
sheet ice in a cumulonimbus cloud because of their regular circular
shape.
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- Winked Slowly
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- An electronics executive, Merlin G. Perkins, 1102 N.
Wright St., Santa Ana, said he observed an object though binoculars
for almost a half hour as it moved slowly overhead finally fading away
into the reflected light above the Santa Ana business district. It
appeared to be round and it winked slowly from dim to bright, with a
reddish glow, Perkins said.
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- Two residents of Borrego Springs, Mr. and Mrs. A. A.
Burnand Jr., belatedly reported "a powerful mysterious light in the
desert about 6 p.m. Monday. "It appeared to be about twice the size of
the moon," Burnand said, "and it flashed about eight times, each flash
being about two seconds duration."
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- Reddish in Color
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- "When it flashed the rays shot out in all directions
and it made you think of an explosion without sound," he added. It was
reddish in color, the couple said.
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- U.S. Weather Bureau official here said last night
they knew of no atmospheric conditions which could account for the
rash of reports. One weather analyst did observe, however, that the
objects sighted in Texas last week end and appeared to be considerably
larger than those seen here. _____
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- Two brief related reports appear after this on the
page to fill out the columns:
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- Mystery Object, Like A Planet, Seen Over Gulf
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- New Orleans, Nov 5 (AP) -- The Coast Guard cutter
Sebago sighted an unidentified flying object over the Gulf of Mexico
at 5:21 a.m. today. The object, seen for about three seconds,
resembled a brilliant planet moving at tremendous speed.
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- Coast Guard headquarters in New Orleans received a
radio message about the sighting. The message did not say exactly who
on board the cutter had seen the object.
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- Air Force Alerts Its Radar Network By The United
Press
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- The Air Force yesterday alerted its radar network to
watch for strange flying objects which might approach the ring of
stations surrounding the United States and Canada. The alert followed
a flurry of reports of unidentified objects, some as long as 500 feet,
mainly in the South and Southwest. _____
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- Quite a wild night out! Whatever happened to
journalism like this? Everyone appeared to be open to inquiry
including military. There are no reports from "prefers to remain
anonymous" in these articles. Something happened and a door was
closed.
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- Whatever happened on the beach in Playa del Rey that
morning so long ago was definitely a part of a larger flap. The
tantalizing details can be found in the research notes of Jim and
Coral Lorenzen now kept at some mid-west University according to one
report and not readily accessible. One day hopefully those will all be
published in their unedited format. They were the best researchers and
compilers of UFO cases that ever lived with an international network
of field investigators called the Aerial Phenomena Research
Organization (APRO).
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- If only those old lamposts on the highway could
speak.
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