UFOMYST
CaseDisk1978

San Francisco, CA, USA

I & 7 friends notice a disc shape object still at night with no sound also,glowing orange haze around the bottom. started moving south.

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 (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1978-07-15
Where
San Francisco, CA, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
6 mins
Geo
37.775, -122.419 · exact
Slug
disk-over-san-francisco-ca-1978-c00331
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1977–1978

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In context

  • San Francisco, CA has 241 sightings on file here.
  • 1978 brought 60 reports from California.
  • The 1970s skewed 22.6% disk reports; the archive-wide figure is 5.9%.

Report

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