CaseDisk1981
Needles, CA, USA
Approximently early 1980- 1981 I was climbing the mountains west Needles CA. I heard over a CB radio that a ball of fire was coming ac
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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1981-03-15
- Where
- Needles, CA, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 30 minutes
- Geo
- 34.848, -114.614 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-needles-ca-1981-63bb61
In context
- One of 8 documented reports from Needles, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 35 sightings in 1981.
- Disk sightings ran at 14.3% during the 1980s (archive average: 5.9%).
Report
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