San Antonio, TX, USA
A report from San Antonio, TX in August 1973 described a huge, glowing sphere that appeared to emerge from a cloud in the night sky, lasting 30 to 40 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: 2100s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (158 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1973-08-03
- Where
- San Antonio, TX, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 30 to 40 minutes
- Geo
- 29.424, -98.494 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-san-antonio-tx-1973-5e5879
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
- San Antonio, TX shows up 268 times across the archive.
- 24 reports came from Texas in 1973.
- In the 1970s, 6.1% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.
Report
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