Mt. Vernon, IN, USA
It was "about six blocks away", 60-80 feet in the air". The object was orange and wedge shaped.
Report quality: Moderate69/100
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: 15s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (110 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 1973-11-02
- Where
- Mt. Vernon, IN, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 15+ seconds
- Geo
- 40.669, -85.824 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-mt-vernon-in-1973-9d7101
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…
Local cluster
November 1973 was a busy month for Mt. Vernon, IN: 3 separate reports.
In context
- This is one of 87 reports logged in Mt. Vernon, IN.
- This case is one of 15 Indiana reports filed in 1973.
- Triangle craft made up 7.9% of 1970s reports, vs 9% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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