San Fernando, CA, USA
The shape of the object looked- like a parachutte ( glowing ) moving very slowly across the sky - form my observations it looked like
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (133 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1965-07-10
- Where
- San Fernando, CA, USA
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- 1 hour
- Geo
- 34.282, -118.439 · exact
- Slug
- other-over-san-fernando-ca-1965-468c02
Part of a wave
The Mid-Sixties Wave
United States (nationwide), with strong echoes in South America and Australia
The wave that broke the Air Force. Blackout-night sightings over the Northeast (1965), the Exeter close encounters, police chases in Ohio, a schoolyard mass sighting in Melbourne (Westall), and a documented 'crash-dive'…
In context
- This is one of 13 reports logged in San Fernando, CA.
- This case is one of 24 California reports filed in 1965.
- Other craft made up 6.8% of 1960s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.