UFOMYST
CaseDiamond1973

Larchwood, IA, USA

Diamond shaped object seen by family of 5 driving near TV transmission tower in South Dakota at Iowa Border.

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (108 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1973-06-06
Where
Larchwood, IA, USA
Shape
Diamond
Duration
10 min
Geo
43.454, -96.434 · exact
Slug
diamond-over-larchwood-ia-1973-aa8424
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

  • Larchwood, IA shows up 1 times across the archive.
  • 4 reports came from Iowa in 1973.
  • In the 1970s, 0.7% of reports described a diamond — the all-time rate is 1.4%.

Report

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