CaseOther1973
Vicksburg, MI, USA
Strange light, Craft and Motion
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: 750s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (31 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1973-08-15
- Where
- Vicksburg, MI, USA
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- 10-15 minutes
- Geo
- 42.120, -85.533 · exact
- Slug
- other-over-vicksburg-mi-1973-5db17a
Wave
Part of a wave
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
- Vicksburg, MI shows up 9 times across the archive.
- 3 reports came from Michigan in 1973.
- In the 1970s, 6.5% of reports described a other — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
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.