CaseDisk1966
Mendota, CA, USA
Disc shaped in 1966. Stopped my parents' car.
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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
- Brief witness text (45 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1966-06-30
- Where
- Mendota, CA, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 5 minutes or more
- Geo
- 36.754, -120.382 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-mendota-ca-1966-6c456d
Wave
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
- Mendota, CA shows up 3 times across the archive.
- 23 reports came from California in 1966.
- 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.