Declassified 1953 Air Force Form Documents Catalina Island U

Declassified 1953 Air Force Form Documents Catalina Island UFO Sighting and an Astronomer's Planet Theory

A round saucer-shaped object 'size of a pea,' purplish-white fading to white, reportedly hovered over Catalina before moving toward Los Angeles — while Griffith Park astronomers suggested such objects might be planets visible after rainfall.

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A 1953 Air Force Form Records Catalina Island Sighting

Force observation form, identified in its header as FTD SEP 63 0-329 (TOE), and it survives in the public record as a partially legible scan rather than a clean transcript. What the form preserves is a single serviceman's account of an object seen over the Catalina Island area in November 1953 — a round, saucer-shaped body described as the size of a pea, purplish-white at first sighting and fading to white before it disappeared. The witness, T/Sgt Robert J Currie, an Air Force clerk with a San Pedro and Harbor Hill, Lomita, California address, reported the object as stationary over Catalina before it moved northwest toward Los Angeles and passed from view.

The form's routing entries show the report traveling through the Air Defense Command, the Air Technical Intelligence Center at Wright-Patterson AFB, the Directorate of Intelligence at HQ USAF, and Continental Air Command — the machinery by which a…

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DOW-UAP-D178, Unresolved UAP Report, Catalina Island, 1953

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