ACUFO:

ACUFO is my comprehensive catalog of cases of encounters between aircraft and UFOs, whether they are “explained” or “unexplained”.

The ACUFO catalog is made of case files with a case number, summary, quantitative information (date, location, number of witnesses...), classifications, all sources mentioning the case with their references, a discussion of the case in order to evaluate its causes, and a history of the changes made to the file.

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Los Angeles, California, USA, in 1944:

Case number:

ACUFO-1944-00-00-LOSANGELES-1

Summary:

In 1984, Dr. Louis Winkler, an astronomer at the Pennsylvania State University, compiled for the Fund for UFO Research (FUFOR), a catalogue of pilot UFO sightings reports.

In this catalogue, Winkler recorded that in 1944, at 11:30 p.m., in Los Angeles, California, USA, a “red-orange light from the sky stopped 100 yd. above the airplane”, moved higher and farther as it was approached by the airplane, but eventually, it came closer. Winkler says it was seen for 5 minutes.

Winkler gave as source: “Lore-Deneault”.

Data:

Temporal data:

Date:	1944
Time:	11:30 p.m.
Duration:	5 minutes.
First known report date:	1984
Reporting delay:	4 decades.

Geographical data:

Country:	USA
State/Department:	California
City or place:	Los Angeles

Witnesses data:

Number of alleged witnesses:	?
Number of known witnesses:	?
Number of named witnesses:	0

Ufology data:

Reporting channel:	Ufologists Gordon Lore and Harold Deneault according to catalogue by Louis Winkler.
Visibility conditions:	Night.
UFO observed:	Yes.
UFO arrival observed:	Yes.
UFO departure observed:	Yes.
UFO action:	Approach, avoidance, departure.
Witnesses action:	Approach.
Photographs:	No.
Sketch(s) by witness(es):	No.
Sketch(es) approved by witness(es):	No.
Witness(es) feelings:	?
Witnesses interpretation:	?

Classifications:

Sensors:	[X] Visual: ? [ ] Airborne radar: [ ] Directional ground radar: [ ] Height finder ground radar: [ ] Photo: [ ] Film/video: [ ] EM Effects: [ ] Failures: [ ] Damages:
Hynek:	NL
Armed / unarmed:	?
Reliability 1-3:	2
Strangeness 1-3:	2
ACUFO:	Totally insufficient information.

Sources:

[Ref. lwr1:] DR. LOUIS WINKLER:

1944; 23:30/Los Angeles, California/Lore-Deneault

A red-orange light from the sky stopped 100 yd. above the airplane. It moved higher and farther as it was approached by the airplane, but eventually it came closer. Seen for 5 min.

Aircraft information:

No information is given on the involved airplane.

Discussion:

“Lore-Deneault”, given as a source by Dr. Winkler, refers to ufologists Gordon I. Lore Jr. and Harold H. Deneault, Jr.

They published the 1968 book “Mysteries of the Skies - UFOs in perspective”. But this report is not in there.

I tried to find it in some article by these ufologists, but I failed so far.

Evaluation:

Totally insufficient information.

Sources references:

* = Source is available to me.
? = Source I am told about but could not get so far. Help needed.

[lwr1] * "Catalog/database, and analysis, of pre-1947 'UFO-like phenomena'", report by Dr. Louis Winkler, astronomer, Pennsylvania State University, for the Fund for UFO Research (FUFOR), USA, page 60, 1982-1984.

File history:

Authoring:

Main author:	Patrick Gross
Contributors:	None
Reviewers:	None
Editor:	Patrick Gross

Changes history:

Version:	Create/changed by:	Date:	Description:
0.1	Patrick Gross	April 11, 2024	Creation, [lwr1].
1.0	Patrick Gross	April 11, 2024	First published.

This page was last updated on April 11, 2024.