UFOMYST
CaseDisk1973

Tupelo, MS, USA

Father and Daughter sees disc over Tupelo, Ms.

Report quality: Moderate44/100

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: 4s (an atypical range)
  • Brief witness text (46 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1973-10-08
Where
Tupelo, MS, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
4 sec
Geo
34.258, -88.705 · exact
Slug
disk-over-tupelo-ms-1973-eaa99e
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

  • Tupelo, MS shows up 19 times across the archive.
  • 4 reports came from Mississippi in 1973.
  • In the 1970s, 22.6% of reports described a disk — the all-time rate 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.