CaseCircle1973

Saint John (Canada), NB, Canada

Bright white flash in NB Canada

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: 90s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (31 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1973-07-01
Where
Saint John (Canada), NB, Canada
Shape
Circle
Duration
1-2mins
Geo
45.271, -66.056 · exact
Slug
circle-over-saint-john-canada-nb-1973-772e00
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

  • Saint John (Canada), Canada has 16 sightings on file here.
  • 1973 brought 12 reports from Canada.
  • The 1970s skewed 10.5% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.

Report

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