Jackson, TN, USA
A massive silent object was a small dot in a matter of seconds leaving us watching in total darkness and amazement.
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: 450s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (115 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1973-06-21
- Where
- Jackson, TN, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 5-10 minutes
- Geo
- 35.615, -88.814 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-jackson-tn-1973-02c49e
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
- Jackson, TN shows up 32 times across the archive.
- 6 reports came from Tennessee in 1973.
- In the 1970s, 6.9% of reports described a oval — the all-time rate is 4.3%.
Report
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