Shasta Lake, CA, USA
silver disk craft approx 40ft diam. flys over school kids and teachersouside for school meeting and lands in back of school.
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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (124 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1965-05-31
- Where
- Shasta Lake, CA, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 1 hour approx.
- Geo
- 40.680, -122.371 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-shasta-lake-ca-1965-effc8e
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
- Shasta Lake, CA has 10 sightings on file here.
- 1965 brought 24 reports from California.
- The 1960s skewed 23.5% disk reports; the archive-wide figure is 5.9%.
Report
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