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This Navy report, filed in 1959 under the heading "Information, Collection of," went from a commanding officer to the Commandant, Eleventh Naval District, and was signed by direction by C. J. Economou. Its two enclosures describe night sightings of four round, silvery-white objects near San Cayetano Mountain. One witness was Police Officer Orville Clinton of Fillmore, California. The other was Police Sergeant D. A. Kelly of Santa Paula, with Officer Paul Lydick as a second witness. The air traffic control officer at NAS Point Mugu, who prepared the enclosures, called the cause undetermined.
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## O a. Approximately 1111152. b. Light conditions - night. 3. Location of observer. a. Observer was at the intersection of Highway 126 and 13th Street at time of sighting. The above intersection is located in Santa Paula, Calif. 6. Identifying information of all observers. a. Police Sergeant D. A. KELLY of Santa Paula Police Department, Santa Paula, California. b. Police Officer Paul Lydick of Santa Paula Police Department, Santa Paula, California - witness. 7. Weather and winds - aloft conditions at time and place of sighting. a. Observer reported weather clear and no wind. b. Omnard Air Force Base 111100X weather reported surface wind calm. Winds - aloft not reported. c. Ceiling - clear. d. Visibility - seven miles. e. Amount of cloud cover - none. f. No thunderstorms reported. 8. Any other unusual activity or condition, meteorological, astronomical, or otherwise, which might account for the sighting. a. None. 9. Interception or identification action taken. a. None. 10. Location of any air traffic in the area at time of sighting. a. Unknown. 11. Position title and comments of the preparing officer. a. LCDR E. L. ZIDHERMAN, Air Traffic Control Officer, U. S. Naval Air Station, Point Mugu, California. b. Possible cause of the sighting is undetermined. 12. Existence of physical evidence. a. None.
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Official release, from the nara collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 6 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.