UFOMYST
CaseCigar1973

Norwalk, CT, USA

Strange lights in Norwalk, CT

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (29 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1973-07-12
Where
Norwalk, CT, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
15 min
Geo
41.118, -73.408 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-norwalk-ct-1973-cea22d
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

  • This is one of 58 reports logged in Norwalk, CT.
  • This case is one of 3 Connecticut reports filed in 1973.
  • Cigar craft made up 5.2% of 1970s reports, vs 2.5% 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.