June 18, 1952 — March AFB, CA
5:00 p.m. USAF Capt. Erie P. Ashton and 2nd Lt. Clifton Ashley, while flying a B-25 about 100 miles east of March AFB [now March Air Reserve Base] in southern California, sight a silver object at approximately 11,000 feet in altitude off their left wing. The object is longer than it is wide and is in sight for about 39 minutes. [Eberhart]
ATIC Report:
Source:
Brad Sparks, Blue Books Unknown Catalogue, Case 624, p. 138;
Edward Ruppelt, The report on unidentified flying objects, p. 146;
Dominique F. Weinstein, ‘Unidentified Aerial Phenomena - Eighty Years of Pilot Sightings: A Catalog of Military, Airliner, and Private Pilots sightings from 1916 to 2000’, NARCAP TR-04, 2001, p. 19;
NICAP, “UFO Paces B-25”;