Chatsworth, CA, USA
One night I looked up and saw one "star" slowly move into another. 3 days later I saw a 15 foot wide orange circle.
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (115 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1978-01-09
- Where
- Chatsworth, CA, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 3 minutes
- Geo
- 34.257, -118.601 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-chatsworth-ca-1978-f7390c
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In context
- Chatsworth, CA shows up 19 times across the archive.
- 60 reports came from California in 1978.
- In the 1970s, 10.5% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.
Report
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