Long Beach, CA, USA
late 1980's · Long Beach, CA, USA · 1 sources
Witness, a private pilot, observed a single large rectangular black object traveling at approximately 30 mph at low altitude (estimated ~1000 ft) over Long Beach, California. The object was described as being as large as a football field or bigger, black as the night sky, and appeared to be trying not to be noticed. It was only detected when it blocked out stars. Movement was intermittent, described as pedaling and coasting like a bicycle. It traveled left to right (roughly along the I-5 freeway corridor) before sailing away behind trees and buildings. No lights, no sound, no landing. Witness experienced an odd confused feeling in the brain afterwards.
- Shape
- Rectangular
- Nature
- Solid unidentified aerial object
- Sound
- None
- Weather
- Clear
- Site
- Long Beach, CA, witness's back was to the beach
- Size
- football field or bigger (approx. 90+ meters)
- Duration
- 0.5 min
- Time of day
- Night
- Local time
- 12 to 12:30 am
- Theme
- radar_aviation
The unmodified record(s) the master event was assembled from.
NIDS-DOCNIDS-DOC:de9601c6:129 fields
- city
- Long Beach
- site
- Long Beach, CA, witness's back was to the beach
- shape
- Rectangular
- sound
- None
- state
- CA
- country
- USA
- weather
- Clear
- date_raw
- late 1980's
- incident
- Witness, a private pilot, observed a single large rectangular black object traveling at approximately 30 mph at low altitude (estimated ~1000 ft) over Long Beach, California. The object was described as being as large as a football field or bigger, black as the night sky, and appeared to be trying not to be noticed. It was only detected when it blocked out stars. Movement was intermittent, described as pedaling and coasting like a bicycle. It traveled left to right (roughly along the I-5 freeway corridor) before sailing away behind trees and buildings. No lights, no sound, no landing. Witness experienced an odd confused feeling in the brain afterwards.
- lifeforms
- None observed
- time_local
- 12 to 12:30 am
- trajectory
- Left to right, traveling along the I-5 freeway corridor; sailed away behind trees and buildings
- case_source
- NIDS
- emf_effects
- None reported
- size_meters
- football field or bigger (approx. 90+ meters)
- time_of_day
- Night
- source_quote
- It was RECTANGULAR don't know how it flew. But it was really,really huge. It blocked out part of the night sky only saw it when some stars were covered up by it.
- catalog_entry
- NIDS-DOC:de9601c6:1
- ground_traces
- None
- location_text
- long beach, calif.
- witness_count
- 1
- photo_or_video
- No
- source_doc_sha
- de9601c6f8900eb75740067125a5dad385ededd38185873e744bb8aba2713cdc
- light_emissions
- None
- witness_sex_age
- Male, age 53 at time of report (early-to-mid 20s at time of incident)
- duration_minutes
- 0.5
- witness_reactions
- Odd feeling in brain, kind of confused after the event
- witness_occupation
- Sales, private pilot
- nature_of_phenomenon
- Solid unidentified aerial object
- NIDS-DOCNIDS-DOC
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