Downey (North American Aviation), CA, USA
Witnesses near North American Aviation in Downey, California, reported a light in the sky exhibiting remarkable acceleration, during a sighting lasting several minutes in August 1967.
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (183 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1967-08-01
- Where
- Downey (North American Aviation), CA, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- several minutes
- Geo
- 33.940, -118.133 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-downey-north-american-aviation-ca-1967-b8c8e4
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
- Downey (North American Aviation), CA shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 27 reports came from California in 1967.
Report
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