Hawthorne, CA, USA
It was 1954. Background. I was 24, busy building our young family, had never heard of the 1947 Saucers by Mt. Rainier.
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 (118 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1954-06-01
- Where
- Hawthorne, CA, USA
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 33.916, -118.353 · exact
- Slug
- other-over-hawthorne-ca-1954-78d91c
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
- Hawthorne, CA has 16 sightings on file here.
- 1954 brought 12 reports from California.
- The 1950s skewed 6.1% other reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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