UFOMYST
CaseDisk1973

Boone, NC, USA

A report from Boone, NC in November 1973 described lights resembling landing lights arranged around the top and bottom of an object that moved quickly, hovered, and made no sound, lasting 30 minutes.

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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (199 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1973-11-10
Where
Boone, NC, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
30 minutes
Geo
36.217, -81.675 · exact
Slug
disk-over-boone-nc-1973-a764ff
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Boone, NC has 16 sightings on file here.
  • 1973 brought 11 reports from North Carolina.
  • The 1970s skewed 22.6% disk reports; the archive-wide figure is 5.9%.

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.