UFOMYST
CaseTriangle1973

Waco, TX, USA

Close Encounter of the Second Kind.

Report quality: Moderate58/100

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: 2700s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (35 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
1973-10-04
Where
Waco, TX, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
45 minutes
Geo
31.549, -97.147 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-waco-tx-1973-65ac8f
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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Local cluster

Local cluster

October 1973 was a busy month for Waco, TX: 3 separate reports.

In context

  • This is one of 30 reports logged in Waco, TX.
  • This case is one of 24 Texas reports filed in 1973.
  • Triangle craft made up 7.9% of 1970s reports, vs 9% across the whole archive.

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.