UFOMYST
CaseDisk1973

Encinitas, AZ, USA

When we were about 17-18, a friend and I had just got out of my truck and walked to the edge of the Cardiff cliffs when all of the sudd

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded approximately
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1973-11-03
Where
Encinitas, AZ, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
10 seconds
Geo
33.037, -117.292 · fallback
Slug
disk-over-encinitas-az-1973-0830d8
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…

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In context

  • Encinitas, AZ shows up 1 times across the archive.
  • 3 reports came from Arizona in 1973.
  • In the 1970s, 22.6% of reports described a disk — the all-time rate is 5.9%.

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.