Los Angeles, California, April 1949 - Incident Number: 342
- Date of account
- 1949-04
- Location
- Los Angeles, California
- Source
- uap_archive
- Record updated
- 2026-10-10
Record summary
Project Blue Book case file indexed from National Archives metadata; page-level review pending.
Published source text
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Source text · mention onlyPROJECT10073RECORD 1.DATE-TIME GROUP 2. "ATION 342 8Apri149 08/2200Z Los Angeles,California 3.SOURCE 10.CONCLUSION Civilian 4.NUMBEROF OBJECTS CNE 5.LENGTHOFOBSERVATION 11.BRIEFSUMMARYANDANALYSIS 30 seconds Obso rver sighted what appeared to be an aluminum-colored, round,flat disc. It trwas thick in the center tapering to 6.TYPEOF OBSERVATION thin edges. It was seen in the Eastmoving to the Nwi faster Ground-Visual than a jet.It left a very thin darkc trail which dissipated 7.COURSE immediately.The object reflected the sun's rays and it appeared to have many projections from it.It followed a ak NW uttaight course and it seemed to be rotating. 8.PHOTO5 .Yes CNo 9.PHYSICALEVIDENCE Yas No FORM FTDSEP530-329 (TDE) Provionsditionaoithiaformmaydeused.
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