Odessa, TX, USA
A report from Odessa, TX in July 1973 described a disk-shaped object, with additional witnesses later corroborating the original report, lasting 1 hour.
Report quality: High73/100
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
- Detailed witness text (152 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-f6ca7f
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…
Local cluster
July 1973 was a busy month for Odessa, TX: 3 separate reports.
In context
- This is one of 29 reports logged in Odessa, TX.
- This case is one of 24 Texas reports filed in 1973.
- Disk craft made up 22.6% of 1970s reports, vs 5.9% across the whole archive.
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.