BAKERSFIELD, Calif. -- Two girls claimed to have witnessed a kidnapping only to find out that the people in the van were delivering telephone books.

Around 1:30 p.m. on Thursday, two teen girls reported what appeared to be child abduction in the area of Da Vinci Drive and Monet Place, police said.

Police said the girls observed what appeared to be a small boy being pulled into a white van. The girls took a good quality photo of the van and the license plate number was clearly visible, Sgt. Mary DeGeare said.

Police said the van is registered out of the Los Angeles area.

Officers arrived near the reported abduction in an attempt to confirm the situation, police said.

Other officers set up on main highways leading out of town to monitor traffic for the van, police said.

Outlining agencies were notified and law enforcement in Los Angeles responded to the registered owner address for the van to investigate in LA, police said.

Approximately one hour later, Officers Ted King and Robert Yoon located the van near Heath and Hageman roads. The officers made contact with the van and it was determined to be a group of telephone book delivery people, one of whom was an extremely small adult woman who was apparently mistaken for a child, police said.

Officers made contact at Independence Elementary school and were provided with a list of names and addresses for children whom were dropped off by the school bus in the neighborhood where the possible abduction was reported.

Officers responded to all of these children’s respective residences and all of them were accounted for.

DeGeare said, "The teen girls should be commended for the brave and expedient manner in which they handled this potentially disastrous situation."