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THE INDEPENDENTTuttday. Worth 26, 1957Saturday night Pasadena has a visitor.About midnight a bright red or red-orange object flew over the city at various speeds, and emitted a 1 bright flashing light.Hundreds of people lined up along Colorado street i and stared up into the sky at/1 the object. ian reports that night/’ thei The police switchboard here Major told me.i in Pasadena received calls from “They came from Los An citizens who thought they geles, Pa-adena and eventually 5 should report what, they saw. the Oxnard area.”1 Many people saw the object. “Were you able to Identify Yet as far as identifying it the object? F asked the Major, .as anything a saucer an air “Negative/* he answered . plane, a blimp I’ve had no ‘‘We w ere not able to pick up z luck at all. the object on radar. No Air1 -A* For e personnel saw the ob-y THE KARI IKST REPORT ject.”rame from K K Jetfier•• on of The Major did \olunteer fte4 Pasadena, who saw the object information that he had heard . at 9:35 pm. Saturday night that a plane from the Oxnard j o%'er Downey. base had been sent to investi*» At 11:30 the Pasadena Filter gate the fly ing object, j Center received their first d **I rattier imagine it was a vshar report plane that they (OxnardiT: e F ;er Center, ac ording had in the air at the time,”I to C • i ,r t)f4 rr ,P,e Major Bowers said. ‘T ha\e Fry, nottfmd their radar con not recHved any report of a fwf. scramble from Oxnard. JReport * rc.mu 1 to ■ :ne would have recked such ft info the [’ per Center. report if a plane had been“Re*wee1: 2310 11 1 p.m sent up from the ground to* and 23'0 wo hid many re investigate.”ports ’ C *pc F: v to!d me. We That took care cf t}:e Sa(‘had reports that indicated that urday night intruder as far as* the UFO was orange.red. flash*1 the Air Force was concerned, j ing a bright white light. Major Bowers told me that aSome of the caller^ claimed full report of the Saturday’ they heard the ‘sound of re- night sighting was beirg for-ports' when the light flashed warded to the Air Force Tech*from the object,” Fry added, rhical Intelligence Center anThe Pasadena Filter Center organization within the Air , filed a complete report with the Force that is still investigate Norton Air Force Base in San ing UFOs..Bernardino, their parent organ* “I believe the Technical In* ization, telligence people are working* r -if \\ • :g» * Pa For* w ” M\*T CHECKED with* Norton, jor Bow’ers added.Ma Kr Thomas Bowers, In* Hundreds of Southlandersformation Serv *es Off.•i,er of saw something in the sky Sat** the 27th Air Division at Nor- urday night.ton was the man I talked with Polt;* h'y we will never knowI “We had a number of civil* w'hat it was.Russ LeadabrandBRIGHT RED LIGHT
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Independent
Pasadena, California, US
Tue, Mar 26, 1957
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