CaseDisk1973

Ballwin, MO, USA

In June, 1973 myself and 6 others watched a huge, silent, metallic disk hover over my house.

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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (92 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1973-06-15
Where
Ballwin, MO, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
20 minutes
Geo
38.595, -90.546 · exact
Slug
disk-over-ballwin-mo-1973-2de171
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

  • This is one of 11 reports logged in Ballwin, MO.
  • This case is one of 6 Missouri reports filed in 1973.
  • Disk craft made up 22.6% of 1970s reports, vs 5.9% across the whole archive.

Report

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