CASE NO. 001: EASTWOOD EVENT

Westminster

January 1, 8:00 p.m.

Three witnesses encounter a pair of silent, disk‑shaped craft flying at low altitude over a residential neighborhood and elementary school. The sighting becomes the first of 142 total sighting events chronicled in 1977 California.

CASE NO. 002: CONSTELLATION EVENT

La Crescenta

January 1, 8:10 p.m.

While the Eastwood Event unfolds in Westminster, the Constellation Event occurs forty miles to the north in La Crescenta. It is there that an amateur astronomer notices a "constellation" that turns out to be no constellation at all.

CASE NO. 003: REACT EVENT

Novato

January 3, 6:50 p.m.

A square aerial object with white lights is seen by trained observers, who call the National UFO Reporting Center. Witnesses include a Navy chief petty officer and his Base React Unit, who share their sighting with a local air traffic controller.

CASE NO. 004: PROTOCOL EVENT

Undetermined Orange County Location

January 18, 6:20 p.m.

While driving through Orange County, a motorist spots a disk-shaped craft that has lights inconsistent with any aircraft of the era. Unknown to him, this may have been the same UFO seen by another witness two weeks earlier.

CASE NO. 005: GLOW EVENT 

Glendale

February 1, 8:30 p.m.

A child watches a luminous object drift across the sky before suddenly speeding away. The encounter leaves such an impression that he calls the National UFO Reporting Center. It's the first of three Glendale sightings this night.

CASE NO. 006: ROUNDUP EVENT

Glendale

February 1, 8:30 p.m.

This sighting, the second of three that occurred in Glendale this night, is one of the best-chronicled ones of February. It's also the earliest case of pilots getting a close-up aerial look at a UFO.