San Jose, CA, USA
Between 1973 and 1977 retuning home from dinner with my parents between 8:00pm and 9:00pm. I was lying down in the back seat passenger
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: 12s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1977-06-30
- Where
- San Jose, CA, USA
- Shape
- Flash
- Duration
- 10-15secs
- Geo
- 37.339, -121.895 · exact
- Slug
- flash-over-san-jose-ca-1977-5e9e94
Part of a wave
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In context
- This is one of 277 reports logged in San Jose, CA.
- This case is one of 44 California reports filed in 1977.
- Flash craft made up 0.5% of 1970s reports, vs 1.7% 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.