Sultan (near), WA, USA
When I was about 12 years old a couple of men took some of the neighborhood kids camping while they cut some trees that they would come
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1973-06-01
- Where
- Sultan (near), WA, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 47.863, -121.817 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-sultan-near-wa-1973-d2306e
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
- This is one of 1 reports logged in Sultan (near), WA.
- This case is one of 9 Washington reports filed in 1973.
- Circle craft made up 10.5% of 1970s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.
Report
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