Santa Ana, CA, USA
While driving through the intersection of 17'th St. & Prospect Ave., in the Santa Ana/No. Tustin area just before dusk on a Summer even
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1965-07-20
- Where
- Santa Ana, CA, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 5 Mins.
- Geo
- 33.746, -117.868 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-santa-ana-ca-1965-36ace7
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
- Santa Ana, CA shows up 61 times across the archive.
- 24 reports came from California in 1965.
- In the 1960s, 10.1% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.
Report
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