UFOMYST
CaseLight1973

Whitesburg, KY, USA

Star-like light flashes different colors, hovers, and moves horizontally over 20 minute period.

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (95 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1973-06-15
Where
Whitesburg, KY, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
20 minutes
Geo
37.118, -82.827 · exact
Slug
light-over-whitesburg-ky-1973-3183b7
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 7 reports logged in Whitesburg, KY.
  • This case is one of 4 Kentucky reports filed in 1973.
  • Light craft made up 11.6% of 1970s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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