Lake Hamiton / Sequoia National Forest, CA, USA
A report from the Sequoia National Forest area, CA in July 1973 described a sphere-shaped object, alongside a reported unexplained gap in the witnesses' memory of the event.
Report quality: Moderate43/100
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 (173 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1973-07-01
- Where
- Lake Hamiton / Sequoia National Forest, CA, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- ??
- Geo
- —
- Slug
- sphere-over-lake-hamiton-sequoia-national-forest-ca-1973-d6097d
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 Lake Hamiton / Sequoia National Forest, CA.
- This case is one of 18 California reports filed in 1973.
- Sphere craft made up 6.1% of 1970s reports, vs 6.5% across the whole archive.
Report
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