The Norton Fluxliners

A three-star general is said to have told a room of dignitaries that the three saucers hovering in front of them could travel at the speed of light or faster. He called them Alien Reproduction Vehicles and said they were copied from non-human technology recovered from a crash in 1947. The nickname that stuck was Fluxliner. The story belongs to Brad Sorensen. He is said to have got into the display at Norton Air Force Base in San Bernardino on 12 November 1988 by passing as the aide of a wealthy former defence official. The craft hovered with their panels removed beside a cutaway diagram and a video loop. One telling calls them acorn-shaped, with magnetohydrodynamic drives and interior parts from the Mercury era. Others give them family nicknames and describe a red sphere in a cradle and ejection seats taken from the F-4.

What is on the record

Eight tellings across three channels resolve to one claimant, Sorensen. Mark McCandlish, who carries the account, is not a second witness. He relayed what Sorensen told him, and Kenneth Hamilton is named as a second relayer. Sorensen never testified in public himself. The account entered the public record through McCandlish's testimony to the Disclosure Project in 2001, and the date of 12 November 1988 is his.

Published versions outside our videos all lead back to McCandlish relaying Sorensen. No Air Force record mentions such a display. Nor do the accounts agree on the place. One telling has the craft flown on from Norton to Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, and some of our transcripts put the whole display there. The transcripts spell the name both Sorensen and Sorenson. The tellings vary on the nicknames too. It is usually treated as an unverified second-hand claim.

Why it sits where it does

The case grades L2: several channels, but thin. It once counted McCandlish as a second witness, and he is a relayer, so the file holds one man's account passed on by another. Eight tellings repeat that account without adding anyone who was there. What Sorensen saw at Norton, if anything, is not resolved here.