CaseSphere1973
Salisbury (Rhodesia), Rhodesia (Now Zimbabwe)
Strange lights in the African sky
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 1050s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (33 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1973-06-30
- Where
- Salisbury (Rhodesia), Rhodesia (Now Zimbabwe)
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 15-20 mins
- Geo
- -17.828, 31.053 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-salisbury-rhodesia-1973-91c160
Wave
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
- One of 1 documented reports from Salisbury (Rhodesia), Rhodesia (Now Zimbabwe) in the UFOMYST archive.
- Rhodesia (Now Zimbabwe) logged 1 sightings in 1973.
- Sphere sightings ran at 6.1% during the 1970s (archive average: 6.5%).
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.