Fontana, California: National Guard pilot chases flat reflecting object near Mount Baldy
On July 8, 1947, at 3:50 p.m., Army National Guard pilot 1Lt Alvin E. Moorman, flying at 20,000 feet above Fontana, California, saw a flat, light-reflecting object near Mount Baldy and tried to chase it.
Background
At 3:50 p.m. Army National Guard pilot 1Lt Alvin E. Moorman was flying at 20,000 feet above Fontana, California. He observed a flat object reflecting light, about the size of a fighter aircraft, approximately above Mount Baldy. Moorman gave chase and tried to keep the object in sight but was unable to do so. The case appears in an Air Force base intelligence report titled 'Flying Discs' of July 30, 1947, and in FBI file 62-HQ-83894 Serial 130 released by the Department of War in the PURSUE program. The account follows the entry in George M. Eberhart's chronology UFOs and Intelligence (CUFOS) and the sources cited there; it is not an independent determination by From Beyond Space.