Richmond, CA, USA
A report from Richmond, CA in July 1973 described three differently shaped, silent objects observed during two separate events, moving northbound, lasting 20 seconds.
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: 20s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (166 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1973-07-01
- Where
- Richmond, CA, USA
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- 20 seconds
- Geo
- 37.936, -122.348 · exact
- Slug
- other-over-richmond-ca-1973-f68ab3
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 19 reports logged in Richmond, CA.
- This case is one of 18 California reports filed in 1973.
- Other craft made up 6.5% of 1970s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Report
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