CaseLight1963
Compton, CA, USA
A witness in Compton, California described an intense, quick photoflash-like light in August 1963, in a sighting recorded as lasting about 20 minutes.
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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (150 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1963-08-01
- Where
- Compton, CA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 20 mins
- Geo
- 33.896, -118.220 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-compton-ca-1963-0c9feb
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In context
- Compton, CA has 14 sightings on file here.
- 1963 brought 10 reports from California.
- The 1960s skewed 11.3% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.
Report
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