Long Beach, CA, USA
At about 4 years of age, I observed a cylinderically shaped object fly over at about 2oclock due west.
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (102 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1965-06-01
- Where
- Long Beach, CA, USA
- Shape
- Cylinder
- Duration
- 5 seconds
- Geo
- 33.767, -118.189 · exact
- Slug
- cylinder-over-long-beach-ca-1965-dd433f
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
- Long Beach, CA has 142 sightings on file here.
- 1965 brought 24 reports from California.
- The 1960s skewed 2% cylinder reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.6%.
Report
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