Fort Payne, AL, USA
It was round with colored lights all around it 50-75 yards in leanth 1972 in Fort Payne, AL. I was very close about 150 yds..
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: 390s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (125 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1973-04-15
- Where
- Fort Payne, AL, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- ~5-8 minutes
- Geo
- 34.444, -85.720 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-fort-payne-al-1973-93a057
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
- Fort Payne, AL shows up 13 times across the archive.
- 14 reports came from Alabama in 1973.
- In the 1970s, 6.9% of reports described a oval — the all-time rate is 4.3%.
Report
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