23 March 1977
(The Times, San Mateo,
California)
Source: NewspaperArchive.com
The whole article:
“Police, sheriff’s deputies, highway
patrol officers and Air Force guards reported a rash of UFO sightings in Southern California — at least
seven in a 9-hour period.
The law enforcement officers reported mysterious
bright lights that hovered, cruised and zoomed in the skies over Los Angeles, Orange, Ventura, Riverside and San Bernardino counties.
All the sightings were reported Monday night [21 March
1977] and early Tuesday [22 March 1977].
A Los Angeles Sheriff’s helicopter crew — Raymond
Davis, 39, and Theodore Roach, 40 — said they were about 600 feet over La Mirada Monday night
when they observed two lights in the Whittier Hills area.
They tried to follow them at 80 miles an hour but the
objects were faster.
About eight hours later, at 3:30 a.m. Tuesday,
security guards at March Air Force Base in the desert 50 miles east of Los Angeles reported
mysterious bright lighted objects in the sky.
Nearby, two Highway Patrol officers, Robert Scholl and
L. Orchard, noted in their log ‘a bright light with a vapour trail’ that
hovered over the Box Springs Canyon
area north of the air base in Riverside
County.
At the same time and 50 miles to the west, Los Angeles [Sheriff’s]
Deputies Lonnie Hicks, 28, and Robert Carr, 34, said they saw a bright light
following another light through the sky over Firestone. A resident in the area
called the sheriff’s station to report the same objects, deputies said.
About 10 minutes later and 12 miles to the south,
Deputy John McSorley at the sheriff’s helicopter station at Long Beach reported two mysterious bright
lights eastbound over the airfield.
Another 12 miles to the southwest, and five minutes
later, two objects were reported by police in Huntington Beach.
About the same time, officers in Ventura County,
some 60 miles
to the northwest, reported similar sightings.
Sgt. Vincent Rupp, monitoring radio traffic at the
East Los Angeles Sheriff’s Station, said there were many radio reports of such
sightings between 3:45 and 4 a.m.
in Southern California and some from as far away as Salinas.”
Wikipedia article: “March Air Reserve Base”:
Quote from the Wikipedia article:
“March Air Reserve Base (IATA: RIV, ICAO: KRIV,
FAA LID: RIV) (March ARB), previously known as March
Air Force Base (March AFB) is located in Riverside
County, California between the
cities of Riverside, Moreno Valley,
and Perris. It is the home to the Air Force Reserve Command’s Fourth Air Force
(4 AF) Headquarters and the host 452d Air Mobility Wing (452 AMW), the largest
air mobility wing of the Fourth Air Force.[3] In addition to multiple units of
the Air Force Reserve Command supporting Air Mobility Command, Air Combat
Command and Pacific Air Forces, March ARB is also home to units from the Army
Reserve, Navy Reserve, Marine Corps Reserve, California Air National Guard and
the California Army National Guard. For almost 50 years, March AFB was a
Strategic Air Command base during the Cold War. The facility covers 2,075 acres (840 ha) of land.[2]”
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