UFOMYST
CaseCircle1947

Richmond, CA, USA

THIS SIGHTING TOOK PLACE WHEN I WAS A CHILD. I WAS 9 1/2 yrs. old. IT was the summer vaccation for the school children .WE had been ou

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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1947-07-14
Where
Richmond, CA, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
30 min.
Geo
37.936, -122.348 · exact
Slug
circle-over-richmond-ca-1947-4e29f4
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1947

    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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Richmond, CA has 19 sightings on file here.
  • 1947 brought 7 reports from California.
  • The 1940s skewed 12.3% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.

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.