CaseCircle1973

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
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…

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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