Huntington Beach, CA, USA
MY DAD SAYS HIS AUNT AND UNCLE SAW THIS CRAFT IN 1944 OR 1945 DURING THE DAY IT HOVERED OVER THEM FOR ABOUT 5 MINUTES IN THE AREA OF BU
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 (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1945-08-08
- Where
- Huntington Beach, CA, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 5 MINUTES
- Geo
- 33.660, -117.999 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-huntington-beach-ca-1945-cfcb27
Part of a wave
The Foo Fighters
European and Pacific theaters of WWII
Allied (and, files later showed, Axis) aircrews reported glowing balls of light pacing their aircraft through evasive maneuvers. Each side suspected the other's secret weapon. The name came from the Smokey Stover comic…
In context
- Huntington Beach, CA shows up 97 times across the archive.
- 2 reports came from California in 1945.
- In the 1940s, 27.3% of reports described a disk — the all-time rate 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.