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Single panel intelligence dossier image for the August 20 1949 Death Valley California crash report rendered in muted late-1940s color showing a harsh midday desert of cracked salt-pan pale sand and dunes with heat-shimmered barren mountains under a bleached white-hot sky, where two prospectors in 1940s work clothes and broad hats stand pointing with one shielding his eyes while a short distance ahead a small dull metallic disc about twenty-four feet across lies partly embedded and tilted in the sand with a furrow of disturbed earth behind it and two very small dark dwarf-like humanoid silhouettes run away toward a sand dune about to disappear, with HUD overlays marking the disc about 24 feet in diameter at roughly 300 mph before impact, the two small dwarf-like humanoids who fled and were lost at the dune, the extreme 138-degree heat that halted pursuit, the note that no wreckage or bodies were ever located, the genre tag that it fits the post-1947 little-men press wave, the claimed CE-III classification, the two prospector witnesses Buck Fitzgerald and Mace Garney, the Bakersfield Californian page 13 August 21 1949 source, and the Insufficient Data status, with a lower strip reading thinkaboutitdocs.com — UAP/Entity Archive by Date Caption: Two prospectors claim a 24-foot disc crashed and two dwarf-like beings fled into the Death Valley heat, August 1949 — a thin, single-source period tall tale. Single panel intelligence dossier image for the August 20 1949 Death Valley California crash report rendered in muted late-1940s color showing a harsh midday desert of cracked salt-pan pale sand and dunes with heat-shimmered barren mountains under a bleached white-hot sky, where two prospectors in 1940s work clothes and broad hats stand pointing with one shielding his eyes while a short distance ahead a small dull metallic disc about twenty-four feet across lies partly embedded and tilted in the sand with a furrow of disturbed earth behind it and two very small dark dwarf-like humanoid silhouettes run away toward a sand dune about to disappear, with HUD overlays marking the disc about 24 feet in diameter at roughly 300 mph before impact, the two small dwarf-like humanoids who fled and were lost at the dune, the extreme 138-degree heat that halted pursuit, the note that no wreckage or bodies were ever located, the genre tag that it fits the post-1947 little-men press wave, the claimed CE-III classification, the two prospector witnesses Buck Fitzgerald and Mace Garney, the Bakersfield Californian page 13 August 21 1949 source, and the Insufficient Data status, with a lower strip reading thinkaboutitdocs.com — UAP/Entity Archive by Date

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California Sightings

1949: Death Valley California UFO Crash

Published: June 22, 2013 | Updated: June 5, 2026

THINK ABOUTIT CRASH REPORT 1949: Death Valley California UFO Crash In the killing August heat of Death Valley — 138 degrees by their telling...