UFOMYST
CaseCylinder1978

Fullerton, CA, USA

A huge mother ship

Report quality: Moderate42/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Brief witness text (18 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1978-08-16
Where
Fullerton, CA, USA
Shape
Cylinder
Duration
—
Geo
33.870, -117.925 · exact
Slug
cylinder-over-fullerton-ca-1978-e7428c
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1977–1978

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    Ilha de Colares and the Baixo Amazonas, Pará, Brazil

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In context

  • Fullerton, CA shows up 42 times across the archive.
  • 60 reports came from California in 1978.
  • In the 1970s, 1.6% of reports described a cylinder — the all-time rate is 1.6%.

Report

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