CaseUnknown1973

Laguna Beach, CA, USA

A report from Laguna Beach, CA in September 1973 described an unidentified object seen near the Coast Highway, lasting 1 hour.

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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (126 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1973-09-15
Where
Laguna Beach, CA, USA
Shape
Unknown
Duration
1 hour
Geo
33.542, -117.783 · exact
Slug
unknown-over-laguna-beach-ca-1973-a73ad3
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1973

    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

  • Laguna Beach, CA has 23 sightings on file here.
  • 1973 brought 18 reports from California.

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.