San Clemente/San Juan Capistrano, CA, USA
Near San Juan Capistrano and San Clemente, California in August 1965, witnesses reported an orange fireball descending toward the ground, visible for about a minute or less.
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (173 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1965-08-03
- Where
- San Clemente/San Juan Capistrano, CA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 1 minute or less
- Geo
- 33.427, -117.612 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-san-clemente-san-juan-capistrano-ca-1965-07218c
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
- One of 1 documented reports from San Clemente/San Juan Capistrano, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 24 sightings in 1965.
- Fireball sightings ran at 2.5% during the 1960s (archive average: 6.9%).
Report
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