CaseLight1973

Fredericktown, MO, USA

One of my most unusual encounters

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: 7200s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (33 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1973-06-01
Where
Fredericktown, MO, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
2 hours
Geo
37.560, -90.294 · exact
Slug
light-over-fredericktown-mo-1973-7e25a9
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…

In context

  • Fredericktown, MO shows up 3 times across the archive.
  • 6 reports came from Missouri in 1973.
  • In the 1970s, 11.6% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.

Report

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