Sacramento, CA, USA
A witness in Sacramento, California reported a slowly rotating, cylindrical object roughly 75 feet above an intersection, during a twenty-second sighting in March 1973.
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: 20s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (168 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1973-03-23
- Where
- Sacramento, CA, USA
- Shape
- Cylinder
- Duration
- 20 seconds
- Geo
- 38.582, -121.494 · exact
- Slug
- cylinder-over-sacramento-ca-1973-9360e8
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
- Sacramento, CA shows up 304 times across the archive.
- 18 reports came from California in 1973.
- In the 1970s, 1.6% of reports described a cylinder — the all-time rate is 1.6%.
Report
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