UFOMYST
CaseCircle1973

Pensacola, FL, USA

I have not told this but to a few friends ... ..Me and my dad ( who is now 77 ), my cousin along with a few campers years ago ( 1973

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: 420s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (132 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1973-06-01
Where
Pensacola, FL, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
6 to 8 Mins..
Geo
30.421, -87.217 · exact
Slug
circle-over-pensacola-fl-1973-b8f362
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Pensacola, FL has 91 sightings on file here.
  • 1973 brought 12 reports from Florida.
  • The 1970s skewed 10.5% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.

Report

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