Modesto, CA, USA
My grandmother woke me up to go to the front house get my uncle to check on the bright blueish light out behind our cottage. I was sca
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1947-08-08
- Where
- Modesto, CA, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- UNKNOWN
- Geo
- 37.639, -120.997 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-modesto-ca-1947-f45dc8
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
- Modesto, CA shows up 114 times across the archive.
- 7 reports came from California in 1947.
- In the 1940s, 27.3% of reports described a disk — the all-time rate is 5.9%.
Report
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