Sightings1965

Rex Heflin's Santa Ana Polaroid photographs

When: 3 Aug 1965
Where: Santa Ana, CA
Sources: 1 public source

Orange County highway traffic investigator Rex Heflin took three Polaroid photos of what he said was a metallic disk crossing Myford Road near Santa Ana, then a fourth of a smoke ring. The Air Force-funded Condon study (case 52) found the evidence inconclusive and internally inconsistent.

Sources

OfficialScientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects, Case 52: Traffic Investigator Photographs (opens in a new tab)University of Colorado for the U.S. Air Force (Condon Report), copy hosted by NCAS / 1969

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