CaseChevron1979
Rancho Palos Verdes, CA, USA
Late at night in the summer of 1979 a huge chevron shapped UFO flew silently and slowly just above the rooftops of So. California
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: 150s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (129 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1979-07-15
- Where
- Rancho Palos Verdes, CA, USA
- Shape
- Chevron
- Duration
- 2-3 minutes
- Geo
- 33.744, -118.387 · exact
- Slug
- chevron-over-rancho-palos-verdes-ca-1979-872336
In context
- Rancho Palos Verdes, CA shows up 15 times across the archive.
- 42 reports came from California in 1979.
- In the 1970s, 1.1% of reports described a chevron — the all-time rate is 1.1%.
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.