CaseOther1960
Long Beach (Terminal Island), CA, USA
On September 17, 1960, a witness at Terminal Island in Long Beach, California, reported four crescent-shaped objects above broken clouds near the naval shipyard, for four to five seconds.
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: 4s (an atypical range)
- Detailed witness text (187 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1960-08-17
- Where
- Long Beach (Terminal Island), CA, USA
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- 4-5 seconds
- Geo
- 33.767, -118.189 · exact
- Slug
- other-over-long-beach-terminal-island-ca-1960-2ccae4
In context
- This is one of 1 reports logged in Long Beach (Terminal Island), CA.
- This case is one of 10 California reports filed in 1960.
- Other craft made up 6.8% of 1960s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Report
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