UFOMYST
CaseTriangle1973

Decatur, GA, USA

A report from Decatur, GA in July 1973 described a large, wide triangular object seen at close range, moving slowly and hovering over the area, lasting 10-15 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: 750s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (166 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1973-07-15
Where
Decatur, GA, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
10-15 MINUTES
Geo
33.775, -84.296 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-decatur-ga-1973-155ff2
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

  • One of 16 documented reports from Decatur, GA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Georgia logged 7 sightings in 1973.
  • Triangle sightings ran at 7.9% during the 1970s (archive average: 9%).

Report

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