UFOMYST
CaseFireball1973

Bentwaters AFB (near Woodbridge) (UK/England), United Kingdom

Bentwaters 1973

Report quality: Moderate42/100

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (15 characters)
  • Location could not be geocoded
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1973-11-01
Where
Bentwaters AFB (near Woodbridge) (UK/England), United Kingdom
Shape
Fireball
Duration
5 mins
Geo
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Slug
fireball-over-bentwaters-afb-near-woodbridge-uk-england-1973-0fd6c9
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

  • Bentwaters AFB (near Woodbridge) (UK/England), United Kingdom shows up 1 times across the archive.
  • 2 reports came from United Kingdom in 1973.
  • In the 1970s, 2.6% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

Report

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