CaseOval1965
Culver City, CA, USA
UFO at Culver City Drive-in 1965.
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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
- Brief witness text (33 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1965-08-11
- Where
- Culver City, CA, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 34.021, -118.396 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-culver-city-ca-1965-4348b4
Wave
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 22 reports logged in Culver City, CA.
- This case is one of 24 California reports filed in 1965.
- Oval craft made up 6.6% of 1960s reports, vs 4.3% 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.