San Jose, CA, USA
The object seen that summer evening was cheveron shaped, with a blue glow visable around the edges, moving silently & slowly. N-S.
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (130 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1947-07-15
- Where
- San Jose, CA, USA
- Shape
- Chevron
- Duration
- 2-4min ?
- Geo
- 37.339, -121.895 · exact
- Slug
- chevron-over-san-jose-ca-1947-b47079
Part of a wave
The Summer of the Saucers
United States (nationwide within two weeks of Arnold)
Kenneth Arnold's June 24 sighting near Mt. Rainier — nine crescent objects 'skipping like saucers' — was misrendered by the press as 'flying saucers', and within days America saw them everywhere. On July 8, Roswell Army…
In context
- San Jose, CA shows up 277 times across the archive.
- 7 reports came from California in 1947.
- In the 1940s, 0.6% 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.