Fredonia (rural), KS, USA
A report from rural Fredonia, KS in June 1973 described a pale blue, circular object that moved to the horizon almost instantly and without sound, lasting about 10 seconds.
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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (172 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1973-06-30
- Where
- Fredonia (rural), KS, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- -10 seconds
- Geo
- 37.534, -95.827 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-fredonia-rural-ks-1973-e21470
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
- Fredonia (rural), KS shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 3 reports came from Kansas in 1973.
- In the 1970s, 10.5% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.
Report
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