San Diego, CA, USA
A report from San Diego, CA in August 1973 described an intense noise overhead that reportedly shook the ground, lasting 2 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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (131 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1973-08-15
- Where
- San Diego, CA, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 2 min
- Geo
- 32.716, -117.165 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-san-diego-ca-1973-1bc244
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 516 reports logged in San Diego, CA.
- This case is one of 18 California reports filed in 1973.
Report
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