Los Angeles, CA, USA
I had a close encounter with an unidentified craft over downtown Los Angeles around 1978 or 1979. I saw 4 human in appearance beings .
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 (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1978
- Where
- Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 34.052, -118.244 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-los-angeles-ca-1978-ca250f
Part of a wave
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In context
- One of 521 documented reports from Los Angeles, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 60 sightings in 1978.
- Disk sightings ran at 22.6% during the 1970s (archive average: 5.9%).
Report
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