UFOMYST
Casecircle1978

Thousand Oaks, CA, USA

I awoke at 4:30 a.m. and was lying awake in bed looking out the window. I saw a large round yellow glowing object close to the ground

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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (133 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1978-01-09
Where
Thousand Oaks, CA, USA
Shape
circle
Duration
60 seconds
Geo
34.171, -118.838 · exact
Slug
circle-over-thousand-oaks-ca-1978-215250
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1977–1978

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In context

  • This is one of 38 reports logged in Thousand Oaks, CA.
  • This case is one of 60 California reports filed in 1978.
  • Circle craft made up 10.5% of 1970s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.

Report

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