CaseCylinder1985
South Gate, CA, USA
Large Object hovering over house with flashing lights that were turning. 500 Lights On Object0: Yes
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 15s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (99 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1985-01-15
- Where
- South Gate, CA, USA
- Shape
- Cylinder
- Duration
- 15 seconds
- Geo
- 33.955, -118.212 · exact
- Slug
- cylinder-over-south-gate-ca-1985-d17fa8
In context
- South Gate, CA has 17 sightings on file here.
- 1985 brought 31 reports from California.
- The 1980s skewed 2% cylinder reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.6%.
Report
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