UFOMYST
CaseUnknown1978

Salinas, CA, USA

Possible closely encounter?

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: 5400s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (27 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1978-06-01
Where
Salinas, CA, USA
Shape
Unknown
Duration
90 minutes
Geo
36.678, -121.656 · exact
Slug
unknown-over-salinas-ca-1978-289fa7
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1977–1978

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In context

  • One of 51 documented reports from Salinas, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • California logged 60 sightings in 1978.

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.