Huntington Beach, CA, USA
Witnesses in Huntington Beach, California, reported a ring of blue lights roughly 200 feet in diameter flying slowly across the night sky at about 500 feet altitude in November 1966.
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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (182 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1966-11-15
- Where
- Huntington Beach, CA, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 10 seconds
- Geo
- 33.660, -117.999 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-huntington-beach-ca-1966-e3b17c
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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
- Huntington Beach, CA shows up 97 times across the archive.
- 23 reports came from California in 1966.
- In the 1960s, 10.1% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.
Report
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