UFOMYST
CaseFireball1973

Oshawa (Canada), ON, Canada

A report from Oshawa, ON, Canada in June 1973 described a round, red fireball that appeared to drip before shooting out of sight, lasting 5 minutes.

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (148 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1973-06-01
Where
Oshawa (Canada), ON, Canada
Shape
Fireball
Duration
5 min
Geo
43.900, -78.850 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-oshawa-canada-on-1973-5dd483
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

  • One of 53 documented reports from Oshawa (Canada), Canada in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Canada logged 12 sightings in 1973.
  • Fireball sightings ran at 2.6% during the 1970s (archive average: 6.9%).

Report

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