Los Angeles, California: High-altitude object splits in two, halves shoot upward
On the night of July 29, 1952, former Air Force pilot Ted Golin and other witnesses over Los Angeles, California, watched an object at about 30,000 feet split into two halves that flew apart and shot straight upward; in Arcadia, fireman Robert C. Dick watched a separate flashing, color-changing light.
Background
At night Ted Golin, a 28-year-old former Air Force pilot, watched an object over Los Angeles traveling parallel to the ground at an estimated 30,000 feet. The object suddenly appeared to split into two halves, which flew roughly one mile apart on diverging paths and then shot straight upward before disappearing. Among the other witnesses was 17-year-old student Stuart Seldeen, who said he had seen the same object twice before; engineer Arnold Dolmatz first suspected a weather balloon but was astonished when the pieces moved independently. In Arcadia, California, fireman and licensed pilot Robert C. Dick watched a separate light for about 15 minutes that flashed at roughly 10-second intervals and changed from blue to yellow to orange. Eberhart cites the Los Angeles Daily News of July 30, 1952. 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.