Schwetzingen (Germany), Germany
A report from Schwetzingen, Germany in August 1973 described a light traveling horizontally at high speed that made a sharp 90-degree turn upward before disappearing, lasting 60 seconds.
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (186 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1973-08-03
- Where
- Schwetzingen (Germany), Germany
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 60 seconds
- Geo
- 49.382, 8.582 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-schwetzingen-germany-1973-a83eaa
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…
In context
- Schwetzingen (Germany), Germany has 1 sightings on file here.
- 1973 brought 2 reports from Germany.
Report
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