UFOMYST
CaseCircle1973

San Antonio, TX, USA

Dark round object with long trail of sparks following it seemed to slowly float just above our home.

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (100 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1973-09-12
Where
San Antonio, TX, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
29.424, -98.494 · exact
Slug
circle-over-san-antonio-tx-1973-a0fd70
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…

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In context

  • San Antonio, TX shows up 268 times across the archive.
  • 24 reports came from Texas in 1973.
  • In the 1970s, 10.5% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.

Report

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