CaseDisk1956
Sacramento, CA, USA
A witness in Sacramento, California reported a slow-moving, circular disk object that left a silvery contrail before disappearing, observed for about seven minutes in July 1956.
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: 420s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (177 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1956-07-14
- Where
- Sacramento, CA, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 7 minutes
- Geo
- 38.582, -121.494 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-sacramento-ca-1956-d2e25b
In context
- Sacramento, CA shows up 304 times across the archive.
- 7 reports came from California in 1956.
- In the 1950s, 28.1% of reports described a disk — the all-time rate is 5.9%.
Report
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