CaseDisk1957
Long Beach, CA, USA
Three disks stationary in a triangle formation during the day surrounded by a mirage effect seemingly caused by heat.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (117 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1957-07-15
- Where
- Long Beach, CA, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 33.767, -118.189 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-long-beach-ca-1957-b4aaf6
In context
- Long Beach, CA shows up 142 times across the archive.
- 11 reports came from California in 1957.
- In the 1950s, 28.1% 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.