Stanley B. Scott

California Highway Patrol officer

The Red Bluff UFO Incident occurred on August 13, 1960, involving California Highway Patrol officers Charles A. Carson and Stanley Scott near Corning, California. The officers witnessed a large, oblong object with red lights at each end and a row of white lights that descended silently, performed impossible aerial maneuvers, and emitted a sweeping red beam.

The sighting was initially radar-confirmed by the Red Bluff Air Force station, though the Air Force later denied tracking any object and officially attributed the event to a refraction of Mars caused by temperature inversions. Carson and Scott, both military veterans, rejected this explanation, noting their professional experience with atmospheric phenomena. The incident involved multiple independent witnesses, including local deputies and a jailer, and lasted over two hours, with the object eventually joined by a second similar craft before disappearing

[ photo: Charles A. (Kit) Carson and Stanley B. Scott ]