La Mesa, CA, USA
I saw a Yellow light in my room I thought it was Traffic light blinking Then I jump up and looked straight at it I remember everything
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 (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1978-08-20
- Where
- La Mesa, CA, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 20min
- Geo
- 32.768, -117.023 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-la-mesa-ca-1978-63946b
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In context
- La Mesa, CA shows up 38 times across the archive.
- 60 reports came from California in 1978.
- In the 1970s, 22.6% 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.