Oroville, CA, USA
I was only six, but I was playing jacks in front of my home, I looked up at the ball, and there they were..no noise..I know now, they w
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1947-06-01
- Where
- Oroville, CA, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- 39.514, -121.558 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-oroville-ca-1947-4e4e55
Part of a wave
The Summer of the Saucers
United States (nationwide within two weeks of Arnold)
Kenneth Arnold's June 24 sighting near Mt. Rainier — nine crescent objects 'skipping like saucers' — was misrendered by the press as 'flying saucers', and within days America saw them everywhere. On July 8, Roswell Army…
In context
- Oroville, CA has 25 sightings on file here.
- 1947 brought 7 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.