UFOMYST
CaseOval1973

Fort Lawn, SC, USA

When I was 6 or 7 years old, my sister and I were waiting early one morning to catch the school bus. Across from our stop there was no

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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  • Duration parsed: 1350s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1973-06-15
Where
Fort Lawn, SC, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
15-30 minutes
Geo
34.702, -80.895 · exact
Slug
oval-over-fort-lawn-sc-1973-20d95d
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  • 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

  • One of 3 documented reports from Fort Lawn, SC in the UFOMYST archive.
  • South Carolina logged 2 sightings in 1973.
  • Oval sightings ran at 6.9% during the 1970s (archive average: 4.3%).

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