UFOMYST
CaseDisk1973

Colorado/Oklahoma (in flight), CO, USA

A report from airspace between Dallas and Denver in December 1973 described a metallic, disk-shaped object with rotating orange lights, seen from an airliner window, lasting 1-5 minutes.

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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (186 characters)
  • Location geocoded approximately
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1973-12-23
Where
Colorado/Oklahoma (in flight), CO, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
1-5 minutes?
Geo
63.163, -149.436 · fallback
Slug
disk-over-colorado-oklahoma-in-flight-co-1973-ac4005
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

  • Colorado/Oklahoma (in flight), CO shows up 1 times across the archive.
  • 3 reports came from Colorado in 1973.
  • In the 1970s, 22.6% of reports described a disk — the all-time rate is 5.9%.

Report

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