CaseDisk1950
Quincy, CA, USA
Three teenage males driving through the mountains near Quincy, California reported a shiny, silver, disk-shaped object, observed for about six minutes in July 1950.
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: 360s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (164 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1950-07-15
- Where
- Quincy, CA, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- ~6 minutes
- Geo
- 39.937, -120.946 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-quincy-ca-1950-fadfa9
In context
- This is one of 18 reports logged in Quincy, CA.
- This case is one of 5 California reports filed in 1950.
- Disk craft made up 28.1% of 1950s reports, vs 5.9% across the whole archive.
Report
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