CaseLight1979

Los Angeles (300 mi. W of; at sea), CA, USA

Name: UFO sighting — Los Angeles (300 mi. W of; at sea), CA, USA
Start: 1979-07-15
Location: Los Angeles (300 mi. W of; at sea), CA, USA

5 light doing incredible maneuvers over the Pacific Ocean. ((NUFORC Note: Report from Coast Guard lookout. PD))

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
Brief witness text (58 characters)
Location geocoded exactly
No other reports from this city within 3 days

When: 1979-07-15
Where: Los Angeles (300 mi. W of; at sea), CA, USA
Shape: Light
Duration: 4 minutes
Geo: 34.052, -118.244 · exact
Slug: light-over-los-angeles-300-mi-w-of-at-sea-ca-1979-37632a

In context

This is one of 1 reports logged in Los Angeles (300 mi. W of; at sea), CA.
This case is one of 42 California reports filed in 1979.
Light craft made up 11.6% of 1970s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Unknown · Los Angeles (over I-10, on most rural Bayou stretch), CA<1 km · 30d apart

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