Lee Vining, CA, USA
Witnesses near Lee Vining, California, reported a large, silent, disk-shaped object hovering above their campsite, blocking about 75 percent of the starry sky, during a 20-minute sighting in 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 (196 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1967-08-15
- Where
- Lee Vining, CA, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 20 min
- Geo
- 37.957, -119.122 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-lee-vining-ca-1967-e81de3
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
- One of 3 documented reports from Lee Vining, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 27 sightings in 1967.
- Disk sightings ran at 23.5% during the 1960s (archive average: 5.9%).
Report
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