# January 28, 1953 — Point Mugu, CA — Flat Disc Observed Overtaking Jet

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**Category:** Blue Book Unknowns
**Created:** [January 28, 2026, 1:37am UTC](https://uapdiscovery.discourse.group/t/january-28-1953-point-mugu-ca-flat-disc-observed-overtaking-jet/478 "2026-01-28T01:37:17Z")
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#### Post date: [January 28, 2026, 1:37am UTC](https://uapdiscovery.discourse.group/t/january-28-1953-point-mugu-ca-flat-disc-observed-overtaking-jet/478/1 "2026-01-28T01:37:17Z")

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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]

Spot Intelligence Report:

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Statement:

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Sources:  
Brad Sparks, Blue Books Unknowns Catalogue, Case 917, p. 190;

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Loren E. Gross, UFOs, a History: 1953, January–February, The Author, 1988, pp. 66-66B;

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NICAP, “Flat Disc Observed Overtaking Jet”;

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