North Hollywood, CA, USA
Witnesses in North Hollywood, California, reported a fireball-like object over the San Fernando Valley during a sighting lasting 15 minutes or more in October 1967.
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (164 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1967-10-15
- Where
- North Hollywood, CA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 15+ minutes
- Geo
- 34.172, -118.379 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-north-hollywood-ca-1967-ddb4f6
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
- North Hollywood, CA shows up 46 times across the archive.
- 27 reports came from California in 1967.
- In the 1960s, 2.5% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Report
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