CaseDisk1953
San Bernadino Mtns, Church Camp, CA, USA
A group of seventh-graders at a church camp in the San Bernardino Mountains, California reported seeing a disk-shaped object for about 15 minutes in August 1953.
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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 (161 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1953-08-01
- Where
- San Bernadino Mtns, Church Camp, CA, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 15 minutes
- Geo
- —
- Slug
- disk-over-san-bernadino-mtns-church-camp-ca-1953-396934
In context
- This is one of 1 reports logged in San Bernadino Mtns, Church Camp, CA.
- This case is one of 6 California reports filed in 1953.
- Disk craft made up 28.1% of 1950s reports, vs 5.9% across the whole archive.
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.