UFOMYST
CaseTriangle1973

Waco, TX, USA

A report from Waco, TX in October 1973 described a triangular object observed hovering at close range, lasting 30 minutes.

Report quality: Moderate65/100

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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (122 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
1973-10-01
Where
Waco, TX, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
30 minutes
Geo
31.549, -97.147 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-waco-tx-1973-99e81f
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

Waco, TX logged 3 reports in the single month of October 1973.

In context

  • One of 30 documented reports from Waco, TX in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Texas logged 24 sightings in 1973.
  • Triangle sightings ran at 7.9% during the 1970s (archive average: 9%).

Report

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