CaseDisk1979
Salinas, CA, USA
Disc shaped saucer craft seen about 100 feet away
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (49 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1979-04-01
- Where
- Salinas, CA, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- 36.678, -121.656 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-salinas-ca-1979-3606cb
In context
- Salinas, CA shows up 51 times across the archive.
- 42 reports came from California in 1979.
- In the 1970s, 22.6% of reports described a disk — the all-time rate is 5.9%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.