UFOMYST
CaseCigar1973

Greensboro, NC, USA

Young boy spots UFO in North Carolina.

Report quality: Moderate42/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Brief witness text (38 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1973-07-08
Where
Greensboro, NC, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
—
Geo
36.073, -79.792 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-greensboro-nc-1973-4d1c20
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • One of 102 documented reports from Greensboro, NC in the UFOMYST archive.
  • North Carolina logged 11 sightings in 1973.
  • Cigar sightings ran at 5.2% during the 1970s (archive average: 2.5%).

Report

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