CaseCircle1973
Dallas, TX, USA
Stationary disk with lights circling the circumference of the object.
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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
- Moderate witness text (69 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 1973-07-15
- Where
- Dallas, TX, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 5 Min
- Geo
- 32.783, -96.807 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-dallas-tx-1973-279d16
Wave
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 208 reports logged in Dallas, TX.
- This case is one of 24 Texas reports filed in 1973.
- Circle craft made up 10.5% of 1970s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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