UFOMYST
CaseCigar1973

Angleton, TX, USA

Bayou Cigar UFO 1973

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (20 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1973-07-15
Where
Angleton, TX, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
29.169, -95.432 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-angleton-tx-1973-389893
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1973

    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…

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In context

  • Angleton, TX has 9 sightings on file here.
  • 1973 brought 24 reports from Texas.
  • The 1970s skewed 5.2% cigar reports; the archive-wide figure is 2.5%.

Report

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