CaseDisk1957
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Witnesses in Los Angeles reported five to seven gray, saucer-shaped objects flying in a V formation, in a mass sighting involving roughly 200 people, for about 15 minutes in March 1957.
Report quality: Moderate65/100
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (185 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 1957-03-15
- Where
- Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 15 mins
- Geo
- 34.052, -118.244 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-los-angeles-ca-1957-b68230
In context
- Los Angeles, CA shows up 521 times across the archive.
- 11 reports came from California in 1957.
- In the 1950s, 28.1% of reports described a disk — the all-time rate is 5.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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