UFOMYST
CaseLight1973

Fort Rucker, AL, USA

Red Light Appears to Go Right Through Cockpit

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (45 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1973-02-03
Where
Fort Rucker, AL, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
10 seconds
Geo
31.391, -85.739 · exact
Slug
light-over-fort-rucker-al-1973-14d611
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 Fort Rucker, AL.
  • This case is one of 14 Alabama reports filed in 1973.
  • Light craft made up 11.6% of 1970s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.

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.