UFOMYST
CaseUnknown1973

Alabama (rural), AL, USA

A report from rural Alabama in July 1973 described an extremely bright light in the sky near a power plant, lasting 1 hour.

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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (123 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1973-07-01
Where
Alabama (rural), AL, USA
Shape
Unknown
Duration
1 hour
Geo
34.022, -86.046 · exact
Slug
unknown-over-alabama-rural-al-1973-ae1d03
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 2 documented reports from Alabama (rural), AL in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Alabama logged 14 sightings in 1973.

Report

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