Whittier, CA, USA
Two witnesses in Whittier, California, reported a 500-foot-long oval object with lighted porthole-style windows flying low overhead during a brief two-second sighting in March 1967.
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: 2s (an atypical range)
- Detailed witness text (181 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1967-03-01
- Where
- Whittier, CA, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 2 seconds
- Geo
- 33.979, -118.033 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-whittier-ca-1967-ec81ff
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
- One of 62 documented reports from Whittier, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 27 sightings in 1967.
- Oval sightings ran at 6.6% during the 1960s (archive average: 4.3%).
Report
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