UFOMYST
CaseCylinder1973

Mt. Vernon, IN, USA

A report from Mt. Vernon, IN in October 1973 described a cigar-shaped arrangement of lights accompanied by a sound the witness compared to a river barge, lasting 5 minutes.

Report quality: Moderate65/100

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
  • Detailed witness text (172 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
1973-10-18
Where
Mt. Vernon, IN, USA
Shape
Cylinder
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
40.669, -85.824 · exact
Slug
cylinder-over-mt-vernon-in-1973-f77017
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

  • Mt. Vernon, IN shows up 87 times across the archive.
  • 15 reports came from Indiana in 1973.
  • In the 1970s, 1.6% of reports described a cylinder — the all-time rate is 1.6%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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