UFOMYST
CaseLight1973

Mt. Vernon, IN, USA

Police put the squad car spotlight on it again and it immediately moved away and out of sight. ((NUFORC Note: F. Ridge report. PD))

Report quality: Moderate69/100

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
  • Moderate witness text (94 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
When
1973-11-02
Where
Mt. Vernon, IN, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
Several minutes
Geo
40.669, -85.824 · exact
Slug
light-over-mt-vernon-in-1973-f06480
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…

    Open wave →
Local cluster

Local cluster

3 reports came out of Mt. Vernon, IN in November 1973 alone — a local cluster.

In context

  • Mt. Vernon, IN has 87 sightings on file here.
  • 1973 brought 15 reports from Indiana.
  • The 1970s skewed 11.6% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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