CaseCircle1976
Long Beach, CA, USA
7 "PEARLESCENT" HIGH ALTITUDE CRAFT IN V FORMATION MOVE HORIZON-TO-HORIZON IN TEN SECONDS.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 20s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (90 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1976-11-18
- Where
- Long Beach, CA, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 20 seconds
- Geo
- 33.767, -118.189 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-long-beach-ca-1976-32ab89
In context
- Long Beach, CA has 142 sightings on file here.
- 1976 brought 36 reports from California.
- The 1970s skewed 10.5% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 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.