CaseSphere1969
Wilshire (405 Freeway, Northbound to), CA, USA
A witness driving northbound on the 405 Freeway near Wilshire, California reported a pale orange-yellow spherical object hovering over the city in May 1969, during a one-minute sighting.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (186 characters)
- Location geocoded approximately
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1969-05-15
- Where
- Wilshire (405 Freeway, Northbound to), CA, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- 40.276, -86.489 · fallback
- Slug
- sphere-over-wilshire-405-freeway-northbound-to-ca-1969-afb456
In context
- Wilshire (405 Freeway, Northbound to), CA has 1 sightings on file here.
- 1969 brought 26 reports from California.
- The 1960s skewed 7.8% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.
Report
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