Key West, FL, USA
Saucer craft with red/green alternating lights on its midsection seen within 500 yards, travelling slowly at first, then vanishes
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: 25s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (129 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1973-11-15
- Where
- Key West, FL, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 20-30 seconds
- Geo
- 24.555, -81.782 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-key-west-fl-1973-22f2c3
Part of a wave
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 25 reports logged in Key West, FL.
- This case is one of 12 Florida 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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