UFOMYST
CaseOval1973

Florida (central), FL, USA

While driving to NY with a friend,observed a oval shape craft 40' in diameter ,stood 30' of the ground.

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (103 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1973-11-24
Where
Florida (central), FL, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
5 MINUTES
Geo
25.448, -80.479 · exact
Slug
oval-over-florida-central-fl-1973-13b296
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 →

In context

  • One of 2 documented reports from Florida (central), FL in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Florida logged 12 sightings in 1973.
  • Oval sightings ran at 6.9% during the 1970s (archive average: 4.3%).

Report

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