Jacksonville Beach, FL, USA
You may be surprised that I am reporting this after 30 years. I remember the date clearly as I told myself I would never forget. I have
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: 150s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1973-10-24
- Where
- Jacksonville Beach, FL, USA
- Shape
- Changing
- Duration
- 2-3 Minutes
- Geo
- 30.295, -81.393 · exact
- Slug
- changing-over-jacksonville-beach-fl-1973-a4c30c
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
- Jacksonville Beach, FL shows up 25 times across the archive.
- 12 reports came from Florida in 1973.
- In the 1970s, 1% of reports described a changing — the all-time rate is 2.5%.
Report
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