CaseDisk1971
Oakland, CA, USA
A witness in Oakland, California reported a disk-shaped object hovering within about 80 feet during a clear evening sky in August 1971, for about ten minutes.
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (158 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1971-08-19
- Where
- Oakland, CA, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- 37.804, -122.271 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-oakland-ca-1971-ecb89d
In context
- This is one of 84 reports logged in Oakland, CA.
- This case is one of 23 California reports filed in 1971.
- Disk craft made up 22.6% of 1970s reports, vs 5.9% across the whole archive.
Report
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