UFOMYST
CaseDisk1978

Ridgecrest, CA, USA

To whom it may concern,

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: 750s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (23 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1978-08-17
Where
Ridgecrest, CA, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
10-15min.
Geo
35.622, -117.671 · exact
Slug
disk-over-ridgecrest-ca-1978-c90473
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • This is one of 37 reports logged in Ridgecrest, CA.
  • This case is one of 60 California reports filed in 1978.
  • Disk craft made up 22.6% of 1970s reports, vs 5.9% across the whole archive.

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.