January 28, 1953 — Point Mugu, CA
1:06 p.m. R. W. Love and a Mr. Ferrenti, while engaged in retrieving radio-controlled drones on a boat 1,100 yards offshore and south of Naval Air Station Point Mugu [now Naval Base Ventura County] near Oxnard, California, see a white, flat disc with fuzzy or shimmering edges rapidly approach from the northwest flying straight and level, overtake a jet aircraft, pass overhead, and disappear in the haze to the east. [Eberhart]
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Sources:
Brad Sparks, Blue Books Unknowns Catalogue, Case 917, p. 190;
Loren E. Gross, UFOs, a History: 1953, January–February, The Author, 1988, pp. 66-66B;
NICAP, “Flat Disc Observed Overtaking Jet”;
