Citrus Heights, CA, USA
Low flying, silent, wing shaped craft passed directly overhead while we were moon gazing; report on local TV breaking news.
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: 4s (an atypical range)
- Detailed witness text (123 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1973-06-15
- Where
- Citrus Heights, CA, USA
- Shape
- Chevron
- Duration
- 3-5 seconds
- Geo
- 38.707, -121.281 · exact
- Slug
- chevron-over-citrus-heights-ca-1973-70802e
Part of a wave
The Great 1973 Flap
United States, strongest in the Southeast and Midwest
With Blue Book dead, the biggest post-war flap had no official landing place — reports went to police, press, and the new civilian networks (MUFON, founded 1969, came of age here). October 1973 delivered Pascagoula's…
In context
- Citrus Heights, CA shows up 39 times across the archive.
- 18 reports came from California in 1973.
- In the 1970s, 1.1% of reports described a chevron — the all-time rate is 1.1%.
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.