CaseLight1972
Los Angeles, CA, USA
A mother and her children in Los Angeles, California reported multiple lights performing maneuvers over the ocean near Santa Monica during a one-hour sighting in June 1972.
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Detailed witness text (172 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1972-06-20
- Where
- Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- one hour
- Geo
- 34.052, -118.244 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-los-angeles-ca-1972-85ed42
In context
- This is one of 521 reports logged in Los Angeles, CA.
- This case is one of 20 California reports filed in 1972.
- Light craft made up 11.6% of 1970s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.
Report
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