CaseCylinder1973

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
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

  • 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

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