Blackhawk, CO, USA
Description: It was,, i believe, the summer of 1973,, my brother and i,, were born in california, my brother was born in 1959,,, I
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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (130 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1973-06-15
- Where
- Blackhawk, CO, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 10 seconds
- Geo
- 39.797, -105.494 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-blackhawk-co-1973-163df3
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
- Blackhawk, CO shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 3 reports came from Colorado in 1973.
- In the 1970s, 10.5% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.
Report
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