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
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 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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