UFOMYST
CaseOval1973

Orange County, CA, USA

1973 A 40 Minute Daytime Viewing Of A BlackHole In Orange County California Skies

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: 2400s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (81 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1973-11-09
Where
Orange County, CA, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
40min
Geo
33.677, -117.776 · exact
Slug
oval-over-orange-county-ca-1973-edefd1
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…

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In context

  • This is one of 9 reports logged in Orange County, CA.
  • This case is one of 18 California reports filed in 1973.
  • Oval craft made up 6.9% of 1970s reports, vs 4.3% across the whole archive.

Report

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