El Cerrito, CA, USA
My wife and I saw a flying saucer, which was at about 2000 ft. sitting still. It was oval shape, silver, and looked like something you
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1967-06-01
- Where
- El Cerrito, CA, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 37.916, -122.312 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-el-cerrito-ca-1967-cc77d4
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 12 reports logged in El Cerrito, CA.
- This case is one of 27 California reports filed in 1967.
- Oval craft made up 6.6% of 1960s reports, vs 4.3% across the whole archive.
Report
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