CaseDisk1978
Big Bear Lake, CA, USA
Disk / cigar object hovering east of Big Bear Lake, CA
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (54 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1978-05-01
- Where
- Big Bear Lake, CA, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 34.244, -116.911 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-big-bear-lake-ca-1978-2e7075
Wave
Part of a wave
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In context
- Big Bear Lake, CA has 7 sightings on file here.
- 1978 brought 60 reports from California.
- The 1970s skewed 22.6% disk reports; the archive-wide figure is 5.9%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.