Playa del Rey, CA, USA
Oval light (the size of a five story building) sighted from shore had no reflection on water, no sound and traveled at breakneck speeds
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: 270s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1967-08-25
- Where
- Playa del Rey, CA, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 4-5 min.
- Geo
- 33.949, -118.446 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-playa-del-rey-ca-1967-76b8dd
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
- Playa del Rey, CA has 17 sightings on file here.
- 1967 brought 27 reports from California.
- The 1960s skewed 6.6% oval reports; the archive-wide figure is 4.3%.
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.