China Lake, CA, USA
a silver sphere was filmed with a high speed tracking camera with data bar the sphere was 30 ft in diamer flying at 1900mph at a range
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1967-06-15
- Where
- China Lake, CA, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 2min
- Geo
- 35.651, -117.662 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-china-lake-ca-1967-cfd0d5
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
- One of 3 documented reports from China Lake, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 27 sightings in 1967.
- Sphere sightings ran at 7.8% during the 1960s (archive average: 6.5%).
Report
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