UFOMYST
CaseCircle1978

Los Angeles, CA, USA

bright multi-colored lights emanate from disc flying/hovering silently approx 500 ft in the air

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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (95 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1978-07-01
Where
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
30 minutes
Geo
34.052, -118.244 · exact
Slug
circle-over-los-angeles-ca-1978-b08ea6
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • Los Angeles, CA shows up 521 times across the archive.
  • 60 reports came from California in 1978.
  • In the 1970s, 10.5% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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