UFOMYST
CaseUnknown1973

Avoca, IA, USA

Stationary bright white light that turned red and appeared to envelope the object once it started to move at a high speed.

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 (122 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1973-12-03
Where
Avoca, IA, USA
Shape
Unknown
Duration
1 hour
Geo
41.477, -95.338 · exact
Slug
unknown-over-avoca-ia-1973-b1d733
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

  • Avoca, IA shows up 4 times across the archive.
  • 4 reports came from Iowa in 1973.

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.