UFOMYST
CaseDisk1973

Odessa, TX, USA

The Odessa Event

Report quality: Moderate66/100

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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (16 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
When
1973-07-07
Where
Odessa, TX, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
1 hour
Geo
31.846, -102.368 · exact
Slug
disk-over-odessa-tx-1973-b57a0f
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 →
Local cluster

Local cluster

3 reports came out of Odessa, TX in July 1973 alone — a local cluster.

In context

  • Odessa, TX has 29 sightings on file here.
  • 1973 brought 24 reports from Texas.
  • 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.