UFOMYST
CaseOther1978

Dunsmir, CA, USA

Black object moving over railroad tracks

Report quality: Low38/100

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: 2s (an atypical range)
  • Brief witness text (40 characters)
  • Location could not be geocoded
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1978-08-22
Where
Dunsmir, CA, USA
Shape
Other
Duration
2 seconds
Geo
—
Slug
other-over-dunsmir-ca-1978-be6c6d
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • Dunsmir, CA has 1 sightings on file here.
  • 1978 brought 60 reports from California.
  • The 1970s skewed 6.5% other reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.

Report

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