Port Sulphur, LA, USA
Witnesses in Port Sulphur, Louisiana reported two silver, circular objects glowing blue around their edges and leaving a blue flame trail, during a four-second sighting in February 1973.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 4s (an atypical range)
- Detailed witness text (186 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1973-02-15
- Where
- Port Sulphur, LA, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 4 seconds
- Geo
- 29.480, -89.694 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-port-sulphur-la-1973-e655ae
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
- Port Sulphur, LA shows up 2 times across the archive.
- 4 reports came from Louisiana in 1973.
- In the 1970s, 10.5% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.
Report
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