The whole article:
“Since Aug. 10 mysterious unidentified flying objects have been reported
at least 17 times in California.
The cases are now being investigated by civilian research groups including the
Center [for] UFO Studies located in Evanston,
Ill.
The most recent UFO incident took place between 12:30 and 12:45 a.m.,
Sep. 6 [1975], near 5,886-foot Mount Wilson, Calif., teeming with TV
transmitter towers, and the home of Hale Observatory, about 15 miles northeast of
central Los Angeles.
In the early morning darkness an electrical engineer sighted three
bluish-green lights forming a perfect triangle. The engineer, employed at a
television station’s Mt. Wilson facility, says the lights always maintained the
same alignment relative to each other. He has no explanation for the observed
phenomenon.
Reports of other UFO activity in the general area of the engineer’s
sighting are being checked by this columnist [David Branch].
A triangular-shaped UFO was also reported less than a month earlier in
Northern California near Gilroy. David Dover, a resident of Gilroy, says that
on the evening of Wednesday, Aug. 13 [1975], he was hunting with two friends
when they saw ‘two bright lights in the sky.’ The witnesses were later able to
get a better look at the strange lights and saw ‘a triangular-shaped object,
with red and white lights on it.’
But perhaps the most intriguing sighting of an unidentified flying
triangle occurred Aug. 18 [1975] in Santa Ana. On that date, Robert M. Hudson, 48, a truck driver who lives
on South Arapaho Drive, viewed the most astounding sight of his life. He saw
the object from his front yard as it apparently moved from southwest to
northeast on a flight path almost over the Santa Ana River.
The following is quoted from his report, written four days after the
incident, to the Mutual UFO Network, a large private UFO research agency:
‘I swear the following to be the truth, the whole truth, so help me God.
‘On the evening of Monday, Aug. 18th [1975], at approximately 5:35 p.m.,
I was out in my front yard, washing down my driveway with the hose, when I
heard a strange-sounding aircraft approaching. I mean strange because I haven’t
heard an engine or motor like it.
‘It sounded like a Cessna engine only it had a high pitch whining sound
or whistling sound with it.
‘And it had a faint trail of vapor or light colored smoke coming from
the tail or rear of the craft.
‘The craft was yellowish orange in color, and had a dark green or blue
single stripe on each wing tip.
‘It was traveling at a speed of at least 300 miles per hour, and
at an altitude of between 500 and 800 feet. I had it in view for at least 30
minutes, till it disappeared into a cloud bank probably over Chapman Ave. or
close to it which is about 5 or 6
miles from my house.
‘The craft did not veer off course or hover but did climb as it moved
away.
‘Also the craft was very clear lined and no visible motors or contours
to hold same.
‘The weather and sky were very clear and there was very good visibility.
I called the ‘Santa Ana Register and (local) radio station minutes after seeing
it. . .’
Other California UFO sightings during the past two months of strange
lights and disc shaped objects have been made in Anaheim, Gilroy, Hollister, N.
Hollywood, Orange, Morgan Hill, Stockton, and Vasona.
The object seen at Stockton on Aug. 14 [1975] at 9:35 p.m. was
reportedly disc shaped and emitted green smoke.
The mystery disc was seen by two Federal Aviation Administration air
traffic controllers on duty at the Stockton FAA tower. (Previous press accounts
erroneously reported only one FAA representative had seen the UFO.)
[Unintelligible, possibly David] Long, one of the controller witnesses,
said the disc was at about 2,000
feet altitude. As the UFO tilted upward, said controller
Long, it emitted a green glowing smoke and flashed red lights.”
My comment:
Vasona is probably Vasona Lake County Park in Los
Gatos, California.
Los Gatos “is located in the
San Francisco Bay Area at the southwest corner of San Jose
in the foothills of the Santa Cruz
Mountains,” according to
Wikipedia.
