CaseFireball1965

West Los Angeles/Brentwood, CA, USA

In West Los Angeles/Brentwood, California on June 1, 1965, witnesses reported a slow-moving fireball traveling horizontally across the sky for about one minute.

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 (160 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1965-06-01
Where
West Los Angeles/Brentwood, CA, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
1 minute
Geo
34.046, -118.431 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-west-los-angeles-brentwood-ca-1965-83ac15
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1965–1967

    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 2 documented reports from West Los Angeles/Brentwood, 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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