UFOMYST
CaseFireball1973

Lahti (Finland), Finland

Hearsay (my granddad now dead) saw greenish light travelling above road (good visibility to road) for 2-3 minutes. No sound.

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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (124 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1973-06-01
Where
Lahti (Finland), Finland
Shape
Fireball
Duration
03
Geo
60.983, 25.662 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-lahti-finland-1973-6879ed
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

  • Lahti (Finland), Finland shows up 3 times across the archive.
  • 1 reports came from Finland in 1973.
  • In the 1970s, 2.6% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

Report

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