CaseOval1954
Yucaipa, CA, USA
Luminous oval over Yucaipa, similar object reported by L.A. newspapers over Inyokern Air Base
Report quality: Moderate45/100
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
- Moderate witness text (93 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1954-12-16
- Where
- Yucaipa, CA, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 1:10
- Geo
- 34.034, -117.043 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-yucaipa-ca-1954-b9cd37
Wave
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
- Yucaipa, CA has 23 sightings on file here.
- 1954 brought 12 reports from California.
- The 1950s skewed 6.1% oval reports; the archive-wide figure is 4.3%.
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.