Atwater, CA, USA
As you can see this happened a long time ago, so my recolections of exact times and date regretable are gone.. although it was 3 days
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 (133 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1973-10-08
- Where
- Atwater, CA, USA
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- —
- Geo
- 37.348, -120.609 · exact
- Slug
- other-over-atwater-ca-1973-26450a
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 16 reports logged in Atwater, CA.
- This case is one of 18 California reports filed in 1973.
- Other craft made up 6.5% of 1970s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
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.