El Cerrito, CA, USA
It was a Sunday evening and must have been in November of Decemberme to Berkeley because it was dark and I needed to be in Berkeley for
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1954-06-01
- Where
- El Cerrito, CA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 37.916, -122.312 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-el-cerrito-ca-1954-0f999b
Part of a wave
The Great French Wave
France, spilling into Italy, Spain, and Latin America
The densest close-encounter wave ever recorded: landed domed objects on country roads, paralysis beams, and small suited occupants, reported by farmers and gendarmes across rural France at a rate of several per night.…
In context
- This is one of 12 reports logged in El Cerrito, CA.
- This case is one of 12 California reports filed in 1954.
- Light craft made up 11.5% of 1950s reports, vs 20.3% 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.