Near-Miss

Intelligence-dossier evidence board for the October 1950 Van Nuys–San Fernando airliner near-miss, showing a night view over the dark San Fernando Valley of a twin-engine 1950 California Central airliner climbing with its lights on while an elongated dark object with no visible fuselage and a single row of six to eight bright blinking lights along its top swerves and passes beneath the airliner's left wing, rendered in cold grainy 1950 night film stock with the two pilots distant and unidentifiable in the cockpit; restrained warm-white tactical HUD overlays mark the case as Classification CE-I close encounter, two airline-crew witnesses, source 1950 press reports, status Unexplained.

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California Sightings

1950: Above Van Nuys and San Fernando — Airliner Near-Miss

Published: April 8, 2013 | Updated: June 5, 2026

THINK ABOUTIT UFO | UAP SIGHTING REPORT 1950: Above Van Nuys and San Fernando — Airliner Near-Miss Five minutes after lifting off from Burbank...