CaseLight1954
Hawthorne, CA, USA
Stationary light for several minutes (far away), takiing off suddenly at great speed.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (85 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1954-06-30
- Where
- Hawthorne, CA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- several minutes
- Geo
- 33.916, -118.353 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-hawthorne-ca-1954-52910c
Wave
Part of a wave
The Great French Wave
France, spilling into Italy, Spain, and Latin America
The densest close-encounter wave ever recorded: landed domed objects on country roads, paralysis beams, and small suited occupants, reported by farmers and gendarmes across rural France at a rate of several per night.…
In context
- One of 16 documented reports from Hawthorne, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 12 sightings in 1954.
- Light sightings ran at 11.5% during the 1950s (archive average: 20.3%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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