CaseLight1959
Long Beach, CA, USA
As a young man, I would lay out in the yard at night and look at the sky--I often saw an object moving at night speed, very high, no no
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: 45s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1959-07-07
- Where
- Long Beach, CA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 45 seconds
- Geo
- 33.767, -118.189 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-long-beach-ca-1959-6522af
In context
- This is one of 142 reports logged in Long Beach, CA.
- This case is one of 11 California reports filed in 1959.
- Light craft made up 11.5% of 1950s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.