Charlotte, NC, USA
A report from Charlotte, NC in October 1973 described a large, bluish-green, nocturnal oval object reported to have been seen by a large number of people in the region, lasting 30 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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (188 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1973-10-18
- Where
- Charlotte, NC, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 30 minutes
- Geo
- 35.227, -80.843 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-charlotte-nc-1973-fba902
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
- One of 231 documented reports from Charlotte, NC in the UFOMYST archive.
- North Carolina logged 11 sightings in 1973.
- Oval sightings ran at 6.9% during the 1970s (archive average: 4.3%).
Report
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