UFOMYST
CaseCircle1973

Bar Harbor, ME, USA

A report from Bar Harbor, ME in July 1973 described brilliant white, perfectly round objects moving rapidly back and forth, and up and down, in the night sky, lasting 45 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: 2700s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (178 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1973-07-10
Where
Bar Harbor, ME, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
45 mins
Geo
44.388, -68.204 · exact
Slug
circle-over-bar-harbor-me-1973-382149
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

  • Bar Harbor, ME shows up 8 times across the archive.
  • 4 reports came from Maine in 1973.
  • In the 1970s, 10.5% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.

Report

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