Townsville (Australia), Australia
A mother and son in Townsville, Australia reported seeing cigar-shaped objects in the night sky in 1973, shortly after a new comet had been sighted.
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: 8s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (148 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1973
- Where
- Townsville (Australia), Australia
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 5-10 secs
- Geo
- -19.266, 146.806 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-townsville-australia-1973-988d92
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
- Townsville (Australia), Australia shows up 8 times across the archive.
- 1 reports came from Australia in 1973.
- In the 1970s, 5.2% of reports described a cigar — the all-time rate is 2.5%.
Report
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