UFOMYST
CaseDisk1978

Winterhaven, CA, USA

Nine menacing crafts rounded up a large group of campers on the Colorado River during one incredibly long night. 500 Lights On Obj

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Detailed witness text (130 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1978-03-25
Where
Winterhaven, CA, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
several hours
Geo
32.739, -114.635 · exact
Slug
disk-over-winterhaven-ca-1978-210e62
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1977–1978

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In context

  • One of 4 documented reports from Winterhaven, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • California logged 60 sightings in 1978.
  • Disk sightings ran at 22.6% during the 1970s (archive average: 5.9%).

Report

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