Bakersfield, CA, USA
1966, I was 11 flashing multicolored lites, red green blue, I think white not sure, moved from stationary positon. fast!
Report quality: Moderate55/100
This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.
- Duration parsed: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (120 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1966-09-05
- Where
- Bakersfield, CA, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 3 min?
- Geo
- 35.373, -119.019 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-bakersfield-ca-1966-8c4809
Part of a wave
The Mid-Sixties Wave
United States (nationwide), with strong echoes in South America and Australia
The wave that broke the Air Force. Blackout-night sightings over the Northeast (1965), the Exeter close encounters, police chases in Ohio, a schoolyard mass sighting in Melbourne (Westall), and a documented 'crash-dive'…
In context
- One of 140 documented reports from Bakersfield, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 23 sightings in 1966.
- Circle sightings ran at 10.1% during the 1960s (archive average: 10.6%).
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.