Palm Wells, CA, USA
Witnesses near Palm Wells, California, reported small, lighted spherical objects hovering just above the ground about a quarter mile away, in a sighting lasting ten minutes in May 1967.
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (185 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1967-05-15
- Where
- Palm Wells, CA, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 10 MINUTES
- Geo
- 34.078, -116.539 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-palm-wells-ca-1967-51eb60
Part of a wave
The Mid-Sixties Wave
United States (nationwide), with strong echoes in South America and Australia
The wave that broke the Air Force. Blackout-night sightings over the Northeast (1965), the Exeter close encounters, police chases in Ohio, a schoolyard mass sighting in Melbourne (Westall), and a documented 'crash-dive'…
In context
- This is one of 1 reports logged in Palm Wells, CA.
- This case is one of 27 California reports filed in 1967.
- Formation craft made up 1.8% of 1960s reports, vs 3.3% across the whole archive.
Report
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