UFOMYST
CaseDisk1978

Huntington Park, CA, USA

My Father and I watched a silver object, shaped like a diamond on its side. It hovered overhead then slowly moved to the right, then d

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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1978-12-20
Where
Huntington Park, CA, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
20 min.
Geo
33.982, -118.225 · exact
Slug
disk-over-huntington-park-ca-1978-27b3d3
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1977–1978

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In context

  • This is one of 6 reports logged in Huntington Park, CA.
  • This case is one of 60 California reports filed in 1978.
  • Disk craft made up 22.6% of 1970s reports, vs 5.9% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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