UFOMYST
CaseDisk1973

Mechanicsburg, PA, USA

cars lined up for days along silver spring road articles were written in the newspaper (strange lights) i saw the ufo 50 ft away.

Report quality: Moderate49/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Detailed witness text (129 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1973-06-15
Where
Mechanicsburg, PA, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
??? ("frozen")
Geo
40.214, -77.009 · exact
Slug
disk-over-mechanicsburg-pa-1973-d594c9
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

  • This is one of 29 reports logged in Mechanicsburg, PA.
  • This case is one of 15 Pennsylvania 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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