San Luis Obispo, CA, USA
A report from San Luis Obispo, CA in May 1973 described an object that made a sharp 90-degree turn at high speed before appearing to vanish upward, lasting 5 minutes.
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (166 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1973-05-14
- Where
- San Luis Obispo, CA, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 35.283, -120.660 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-san-luis-obispo-ca-1973-827d63
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 22 reports logged in San Luis Obispo, CA.
- This case is one of 18 California reports filed in 1973.
Report
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