Roseburg, OR, USA
We were on the outskirts of town, just passing the sewage treatment plant, when this object with blinding white light enveloped the car
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 7200s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1973-10-01
- Where
- Roseburg, OR, USA
- Shape
- Cylinder
- Duration
- not sure,maybe 2 hours
- Geo
- 43.217, -123.342 · exact
- Slug
- cylinder-over-roseburg-or-1973-350de8
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
- Roseburg, OR shows up 40 times across the archive.
- 3 reports came from Oregon in 1973.
- In the 1970s, 1.6% of reports described a cylinder — the all-time rate is 1.6%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.