UFOMYST
CaseOval1973

Jackson, TN, USA

A report from Jackson, TN in June 1973 described a massive, silent oval object that shrank to a small dot within seconds before vanishing, lasting 5-10 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: 450s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (160 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
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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

  • 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%.

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