CaseDisk1971
Santa Clara, CA, USA
A pink, disk-shaped object was reported appearing to evade both private and military aircraft over Santa Clara, California, in June 1971, during an encounter lasting about two hours.
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: 7200s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (182 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1971-06-15
- Where
- Santa Clara, CA, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 2 hrs.
- Geo
- 37.354, -121.955 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-santa-clara-ca-1971-ac5d23
In context
- One of 37 documented reports from Santa Clara, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 23 sightings in 1971.
- Disk sightings ran at 22.6% during the 1970s (archive average: 5.9%).
Report
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