UFOMYST
CaseCircle1973

Houston, TX, USA

UFO hovers over Houston TX, fall 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: 2700s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (38 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1973-10-15
Where
Houston, TX, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
45 minutes
Geo
29.763, -95.363 · exact
Slug
circle-over-houston-tx-1973-127573
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 410 documented reports from Houston, TX in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Texas logged 24 sightings in 1973.
  • Circle sightings ran at 10.5% during the 1970s (archive average: 10.6%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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