UFOMYST
CaseCigar1973

Tampa, FL, USA

Whilewatching a friend of mine go-karting, I noticed a metallic cigar-shaped craft, several hundred feet in length move slowly over the

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: 90s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1973-06-15
Where
Tampa, FL, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
1-2 minutes
Geo
27.948, -82.458 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-tampa-fl-1973-fd6aad
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

  • Tampa, FL shows up 225 times across the archive.
  • 12 reports came from Florida in 1973.
  • In the 1970s, 5.2% of reports described a cigar — the all-time rate is 2.5%.

Report

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