Brawley, CA, USA
Witnesses in Brawley, California, reported a disk-shaped object hovering about 20 feet above a canal, appearing to draw water from it, during a 20-minute sighting in August 1967.
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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (178 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1967-08-01
- Where
- Brawley, CA, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 20 minutes
- Geo
- 32.979, -115.530 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-brawley-ca-1967-ff8aac
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
- Brawley, CA has 9 sightings on file here.
- 1967 brought 27 reports from California.
- The 1960s skewed 23.5% disk reports; the archive-wide figure is 5.9%.
Report
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