UFOMYST
CaseCircle1977

Huntington Beach, CA, USA

Incident on Pacific Coast Highway leads to time loss

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: 210s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (52 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1977-08-22
Where
Huntington Beach, CA, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
3 - 4 minutes
Geo
33.660, -117.999 · exact
Slug
circle-over-huntington-beach-ca-1977-ec10c8
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1977–1978

    Colares & Operação Prato

    Ilha de Colares and the Baixo Amazonas, Pará, Brazil

    The most physically aggressive wave on record. Luminous objects — locals called them 'chupa-chupa' (sucker-sucker) — descended nightly over fishing villages, projecting beams that left burns, puncture marks, anemia and…

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In context

  • One of 97 documented reports from Huntington Beach, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • California logged 44 sightings in 1977.
  • Circle sightings ran at 10.5% during the 1970s (archive average: 10.6%).

Report

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