CaseDisk1963
Lompoc/Vandenberg AFB, CA, USA
Witnesses near Vandenberg Air Force Base in Lompoc, California reported a disk-shaped object over a mountain during a Scout missile launch in April 1963, lasting about five minutes.
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 (181 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1963-04-15
- Where
- Lompoc/Vandenberg AFB, CA, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 5 MIN
- Geo
- 34.639, -120.458 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-lompoc-vandenberg-afb-ca-1963-e6cb2d
In context
- Lompoc/Vandenberg AFB, CA shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 10 reports came from California in 1963.
- In the 1960s, 23.5% 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.