CaseOther1973

Wellsville, PA, USA

A report from Wellsville, PA in June 1973 described a yellowish, star-shaped light approaching from the south around 9 p.m., lasting 2 minutes.

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (143 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1973-06-15
Where
Wellsville, PA, USA
Shape
Other
Duration
2 minutes
Geo
40.051, -76.937 · exact
Slug
other-over-wellsville-pa-1973-0302d2
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

  • One of 2 documented reports from Wellsville, PA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Pennsylvania logged 15 sightings in 1973.
  • Other sightings ran at 6.5% during the 1970s (archive average: 6.9%).

Report

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