CaseCross1964
Los Angeles (San Fernando Valley), CA, USA
A witness in the San Fernando Valley area of Los Angeles, California reported a cross-shaped object that appeared to pinwheel in place, resembling an airliner, lasting five minutes, August 1964.
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 (194 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1964-08-20
- Where
- Los Angeles (San Fernando Valley), CA, USA
- Shape
- Cross
- Duration
- 5 min.
- Geo
- 34.052, -118.244 · exact
- Slug
- cross-over-los-angeles-san-fernando-valley-ca-1964-d94141
In context
- Los Angeles (San Fernando Valley), CA has 3 sightings on file here.
- 1964 brought 11 reports from California.
- The 1960s skewed 0.2% cross reports; the archive-wide figure is 0.3%.
Report
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