UFOMYST
CaseFireball1973

Arad (Romania), Romania

Large fireball like object rising from over distant rooftops straight up for almost one hour and blending into the stars

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: 2700s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (120 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1973-06-30
Where
Arad (Romania), Romania
Shape
Fireball
Duration
45 minutes
Geo
46.183, 21.317 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-arad-romania-1973-a0643c
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

  • This is one of 1 reports logged in Arad (Romania), Romania.
  • This case is one of 1 Romania reports filed in 1973.
  • Fireball craft made up 2.6% of 1970s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.

Report

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