Reseda, CA, USA
The object appeared red like a brilliant ruby on July 4, 1978 about 9:00 PM, and was witnessed by a few thousand people.
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: 1050s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (120 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1978-07-04
- Where
- Reseda, CA, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 15-20 minutes
- Geo
- 34.201, -118.536 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-reseda-ca-1978-2ad719
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In context
- Reseda, CA has 25 sightings on file here.
- 1978 brought 60 reports from California.
- The 1970s skewed 6.1% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.
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.